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Chapter 10

Pages 97 - 104

Start Date: 29th May
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This chapter was great! So much fun to read.

1 short question:

p 104:
What is ナムサーン ? I have no clue and can’t find anything on google either.

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I’m struggling to find a decent source right now but this website explains it this way:

南無三！(Namusan!), which is short for 南無三宝 - roughly, “Hail to the three treasures of Buddhism” (the Buddha, dharma, and the clergy). It’s used to request salvation in a moment of danger. Namusan, or Namuamidabutsu(南無阿彌陀佛) is Buddhist counterpart of “Amen” in Japanese Buddhism, which can be found in most of prayers and rites.

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ゆっこ is being my gateway to Japanese literature again.

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I’m not sure if I found the correct meanings for the bold parts, and having some trouble putting them together.

ヤマをはろう！！！
はろう volitional form of はる meaning to do?

英語のテスト範囲がわからない今

ひとバクチを打つしかないわ！！！
バクチ gambling?
打つ meaning ’ to engage in (gambling, etc.)​’

英単語のみで いざ
のみ only; nothing but​

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Page 100

My understanding is that this comes from the idiomatic expression 山をはる that means “to speculate, to gamble on getting the right questions”

Yes, I think that’s the ばくち being used there.

Yes, I believe she’s saying she’s going to bet on only learning (English) vocabulary.

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Thank you! That part seems to be difficult to translate, but I have a general feeling of it in my head.

Also, this chapter is in the 11th episode of the anime. There are lots of extra scenes and dialogue too.

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On page 97:

あんた3日も学校休んでたけど大丈夫？

Having trouble understanding the でたけど part.

Is it “出たけど”?

If so, maybe the sentence reads something like:

~you’ve been out of school 3 days, are you ok?~

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I think it’s 休んでた (short form of 休んでいた) + けど

Translation isn’t my strong suite but I’d translate it in a similar way as “You’re alright, even though you’ve been out of school for three days?”

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Ok, I’m not that good with grammar yet but after looking up online; でいた is the past positive Te form if I’m not mistaken. and けど means but/however.

So 休んでた just means “but absent” or “absent but” (not sure what order that would translate to).

Does that sound about correct?

Thanks for the help also!

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Sorry, my last post was super short because I was about to go to bed, I’ll give you a few more details now :sweat_smile:

休んでいた is the past positive of 休んでいる. The ている form of verbs has several uses but I think the one used here is this one where it indicates a state of being. So I would translate 学校休んでた as something like “You’ve been absent from school”

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Thanks for explaining. I’ll be keeping an eye out for this use in the future and try to get a better feel from context. I haven’t used Bunpro in a long time, good thing I have my account still lol.

Edit: Just now noticed that いる is to be of animate objects.

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