GrammarInTheWild - Daily Discussion

[mathijsdm]

Translation

まずは「東京リバブル赤羽センタ－」へお気軽いにご連絡・ご来店ください。

まずは = First (of all); firstly; to begin with; before anything else

東京 = Toukyou

リバブル = Liveable

赤羽 = Akabane

センタ－ = Center

へ = particle (indicates direction or goal) to; towards; for

お気軽い = Cheerful; buoyant; lighthearted

に= to (direction, state); toward; into

ご連絡 = Contacting; Getting in touch; Communication; Call; message

ご来店 = Coming to the store

ください = Please (do for me)

First of all, feel lighthearted to contact or visit the Toukyou Livable Akabane Center, please

Please feel free to contact or visit the Toukyou Liveable Akabane Center first.

[s1212z]

T

Before anything else, please feel free to contact or go to ‘Tokyu Hands Akabane Center’

U

材料を扱う前にまず手を洗うはずだ。

[HotAirGun]

...

To start with, please feel free to contact or to come to our Tokyu Livable office on Akabane station.

[Asher]

September 16th Translation

Notes :
For the names of places or businesses (especially when they are in Kanji), sometimes it can be very difficult to mentally try to translate what the meaning is. Just like in English, quite often there is no particular meaning in a name, and it may not even be a real word. In those cases it is often best just to go with the most common reading of the kanji and hope for the best! (Quite often this is exactly what natives will do)

[Asher]

September 17th
ぬ

Note : Although this uses ぬ, 底知れぬ is usually considered a set phrase, and will not take the を particle for 底.

[HotAirGun]

...

Freeza is afraid of Saiyan’s unlimited possibilities [power].

[mathijsdm]

Translation

フリ－ザはセイア人の底知れぬ可能性をおそれている。

フリ－ザ = Freeza

は = topic marker particle

セイア人 = Saiyan

の = possessive

底知れぬ = bottomless; unlimited; immeasurable; inexhaustible

可能性 = potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability

それている = ている-form of それる = to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to swerve form: to miss (e.g. a target)

to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray; to wander

恐れる = to fear; to be afraid of​

Natural : Freeza is afraid of the Saiyan’s unlimited potential.

Edit : Just goes to show you should read carefully, missed the お in おそれている until reading through my post again after posting

[SteveB]

Summary

“Frieza is afraid of Saiyans unlimted potential”

[s1212z]

T

Frieza is afraid of the Saiyans’ unlimited potential.

U

助けなくちゃいけなくて、もう見て見ぬ振りできなかった。

[MZa]

translation

Freeza is fearing the limitless potential of the sayans.

use case

犬は野に寝せぬ。
Not sure how to use 寝 (ぬ) since it is noted as にだん動詞 in the dictionary (I didn’t even know such verbs exist) but I wanted to try a funny alliteration

use cases' translation

@s1212z 助けなくちゃいけなくて、もう見て見ぬ振りできなかった。
I had to help (someone) and could not turn a blind eye anymore.

[Terilian]

Summary

Dragonball quote? Neat.
Should be something along the line of

" Freeza fears the immeasurable potential of the Saiyans."

Probably some talk from before the fight on Namek when talking about how he destroyed their race/planet due to that and the fear of them producing a super saiyan.

Thanks for the

@Asher

底知れぬ

info on this expression. Made the sentence easier to parse and got me a new vocab

Probably the easiest one grammatically so far (from the few I have seen)

[Shigurette]

Yay for Dragonball! One of these days I’ll get around to reading the entire manga.

Translation

Frieza fears the unlimited potential of the Saiyans

[EdBunpro]

It’s so good! While the Saiyan arc was the only one to get an official color and translation, there’s a team online who’s done the entire arc with their own (imo) more natural translation. Color adds so much to the story, it’s such a great journey!

Anyways, hadn’t learned め yet not 底知れ but even after checking on jisho my initial assumption seems to be correct

Summary

Freiza fears the unlimited/unmeasurable potential of the Saiyans.

[Jake]

September 17th Translation

Notes:
Quite often, grammar points or parts of grammar points can be found in set phrases. This is very common for some the the rarer types of negation like ず and ぬ, which may sound unnatural outside of those set phrases, depending on the situation.

[Jake]

September 18th
それに

[HotAirGun]

...

Moreover, therefore the persons who fall in love with me are no one but loser-like men.

[ccookf]

それに私の好きになる人ってくずみたいな男ばっかだからなぁ

summary

Also, since the men I come to like are just trash…

Can someone fill me in on what exactly ばっか is?

[Asher]

ばっか

Slang for ばかり (only/just)

[mathijsdm]

Translation

それに私の好きになる人ってクズみたいな男ばっかだからなぁ

それに = Besides; in addition; also; moreover

私 = I; me

の = Possessive

好きになる = to come to like; to become fond of; to fall in love

人 = man, person

って = as for

クズ = Scum; Piece of trash; loser

みたいな = Sort of like that; Something like that; In that vein

男 = man

ばっか = Only; Merely; Nothing but; No more than

だから = So therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why; for that reason

なぁ = emphatic sentence ending

Rough : Besides my falling ing love with persons sort of like scum only

Natural : Besides, the men I fall in love with are all jerks.

Edit : So, I was quickly writing down my explanation of thinking and in an absent moment apparently wrote “って = casual quotation” while it’s clearly in the “as for” sense… Excuse my brain lapse

[HotAirGun]

Huh, I’m confused, who is the doer in the「私の好きになる人」part, 私 or 人? Who is falling in love with whom?