minasan, kon'nichiwa!
Yeah; this thread is really successful
> エリックさん、
oh good; I could give you a usuful information then
yeah...."waiter" might not want to "dakareru" in fron to everyone...
Unless it's used as a joke (or it's about gay couple), the person who "dakareru" is usually a woman.
> Nathan-san,
Grammatically and originally the meaning was "hug" and correct, so don't worry too much. Just remember
that the "slanggy" connoation is quite strong
Your name in Japanese might be ネイサン [ne i sa n] or ネーサン [nee sa n] and, if Nathaniel should be pronounced
like [na tha ni e l] as it's written, then it should be ナサニエル [na sa ni e ru]. We don't have sound of /th/
so it's either /s/ or /z/.
Your sentence was so close!! The last part should be (とても)風が強い
(please see keven-san's post)
> Andy-san,
you're right; people here are very kind and nice
Also we are all very glad that you participate so actively in forums to practice Japanese
You tried a very difficult sentence! Brilliant! Well, "where is the world's windiest place?" would be
"sekai de ichiban kaze ga tsuyoi no wa doko desuka"
Something "in the world" is usually "sekai de ichiban ..."
And, thank you for your help with Nathan's sentence!
You are actually write about "very wind" if written 風の強い. It just has to be 風が as the Japanese sentence
works literally "wind is strong"
> kevenさん、
Your sentences about 風が強い are perfect!! Both are very correct (and so I omitted my explanation for Nathan-san
cheers for that)
Making mistake in order to learn is actually the best way, I guess! We usually don't do that even if we know it's the
best way to learn, so, you're doing very well
Right, so 風の強い... I think you got it correctly. When it's a normal simple sentence, it IS just 風が強い and that's it.
When you modify a noun, just like you did in your sentence, it can be both 風の強い and 風が強い:
風が強い日 and 風の強い日
The reason behind this is because long long time ago, the particle の didn't exist and used to be all が in those places.
In medieval, in order to clarify the meanings の was replaced in some meanings. Still today, we see the old usage of が
in some dialects, and the issue above (風が強い日 and 風の強い日) still remains as standard Japanese.
（ある）風の強い日にゴミが（僕の）顔にとんできました。
In this sentence you can describe as "trash flew INTO my face" so, it means it "came" to you.
The word for "to export" is 輸出する
And wow your sentence is difficult...
アメリカには、ハコスカで知られる日産（ニッサン）のスカイライン1970がないので、買いたかったら日本から輸出しないといけないんです。
I don't know anything about cars
, but if this 1970 Skyline is known also as (name) Hakosuka, this sentence above
should be fine. Is it actually "Nissan Skyline (in 1970s)" or "1970 Skyline from Nissan"? Well, it shouldn't be a big deal...
Natsuko(奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
