Nice job!
Yeah, ちょうしをつけながら is a bit confusing, my best guess is that the それ、くえー part is noises from the mouth, and then ちょうし refers to the “vein; mood; way; manner” definition. So something like “With the manner of ‘それ、くえー’, she threw onigiri into the mouth etc”
One more nitpick to note is なげこんでいきました is using いく as an auxiliary verb, which carries the nuance of ‘to begin (and continue).’ So, she began (and continued) to throw the onigiri into the mouth.
Page 14 Sentence 1
あたまの口は、アフアフと、いくらでもにぎりめしをたべました。
あたまの head
口は、mouth
アフアフと、(eating) heartily (onomatopoeia)
いくらでも as many as one likes
にぎりめしを
たべました ate
The head´s mouth ate the nigiri with a “munch, munch”, as much as it likes.
Hmm, I think I put the wrong definition of いくらでも in the vocab sheet. In this case I’d say definition 2 fits a little better, ‘great many.’
The head’s mouth ate a great many onigiri with a ‘munch munch.’
Not your fault, but mine. Updated the vocab sheet!
I see, but every translation i found was something similar to “as many as one likes” or “no mater of how~much” so i thought it fitted
Yeah, it still pretty much fits but ‘a great many’ is a more natural English translation. As long as you got the meaning it’s not that big of a deal though.
Page 14 Sentence 2
にぎりめしをたべおわると、こんどは、みそしるをゼア、ゼアと、口の中にながしこみました。
をたべ to eat
おわると、to end
こんどは、this time
みそしるを miso soup
ゼア (water rushing) plentily (onomatopoeia?)
口の mouth
中に
ながしこみました。to wash down
She finished eating the nigiri, and now she poured the miso soup into the mouth. (with a “zeer zeer” sound?)
Yep! She poured the soup with a ざあ ざあ。This is a really common sound effect in manga for the sound of rain.
Looks good!
Page 14 Sentence 3
「これで、こめや みその へるわけがわかったぞ。
これ this
こめ rice
みそ miso
へる to decrease
わけ reason
わかった understand
ぞ - masculine sentence ending?
“Now i understand why the rice and miso is decreasing.”
Im guessing this is what the husband is thinking to himself when he see the wife.
Yep!
たいへんな女を、にょうぼうにしたものだ。」
たいへんな terrible
女を、woman
したものだ thing
I have a hard time translate this but I would translate it to
“(What a) terrible woman the wife have become.”
In this sentence the important nuance is the にする grammar point, to make.
にょうぼうにした
Made a wife
たいへんな女を
A terrible woman (direct object of the verb)
So putting it together, and from the perspective of Gosaku:
[I] have made a terrible woman [my] wife.
I thought it sounded wrong because there was no indication that he did something to her before.
But you are right!
I was just wondering if somebody could explain the difference between 大がま and 大なべ, as on the vbocab sheet they both say cauldron. I have also tried to google it and while 大なべ shows more of a pot, I could only find waterfalls? Google translate says it’s a kettle, so wasn’t sure which was best!
You might do an image search of 大釜 and 大鍋.
Page 15 Sentence 2
ごさくは、すっかりおそろしくなりました。
すっかり completely
おそろしい terrible
なる became
Gosaku became completely terrified.
Will we continue translate every sentence or how does everyone feel about it? It is my first book club so im not sure of how things working here.
For me it help a lot to translate everything and making sure I got everything.
Feel free to continue to translate as long as it’s helpful for you!
I would also Like to continue translating every Sentence. It’s also my first bookclub and my first book. I Probably wouldn’t understand anything If we wouldn’t do it Sentence for Sentence.
I appreciate the sentence by sentence translation. I don’t think I can get through this book without it, since I’m not at that level yet.
For now I’m just trying to parse what I can myself, seeing what vocab / kanji / grammar I can recognize, then jumping to the thread for the answer. I hope once I finish the Genki series I can start providing my own translations. Maybe for the next book club reading.
Page 15 Sentence 3
やかて、その日もくれて、夕がたになりました。
やかて Finally
その日 that day
くれて to end
夕がた early evening
なりました became
Finally that day ended, it became (early) evening.