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I'm not entirely sure when to use which system and how...

Let's say it's the first of march: would I say さんがつ　ついたち or いちにち?

When do you use　ついたち、ふつか、みっか、よっか、ETC. and when do you use いちにち、ににち、ETC.

When do you use　ひとつ、ふたつ、みっつ、よっつ、いつつ、ETC. as opposed to いち、に、さん、し、ETC.

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[～熱き因縁～]　注文しました
商品代金２１００円　手数料不明　発売日１月
です

Bracket is the name of the item.

I know it's saying cos is 2100 yen and won't be available until January, but not sure what the rest of it says.

Thanks for the help!

A little help with Momotaro fairytale wanted:

1. ドンブラコ、ドンブラコと - something onomatopoeic, I guess, but I didn't find it in available dictionaries.
2. 「みんな、ぬかるなよ。それ、かかれ！」 - the phrase Momotaro shouts before attacking Onigashima.
3. 桃太郎も、刀をふり回して 大あばれです - Momotaro also waved his katana and ....(?)
4. 「まいったぁ 、まいったぁ。こうさんだ、助けてくれぇ」。 と、手をついてあやまりました。 - I got the idea (oni chief asking for mercy, right?) but can't decipher it word by word.

どうもありがとうご座います

 
Ive nearly done my presentation for my end of semester Kaiwa final, but I really need help translating these couple of sentences for it to make sense:


The older people I asked while conducting my survey said. They had only seen cosplay on TV and at harajuku.


Many people assume Cosplay was not famous outside of Japan but were surprised to find out that it was.


If anyone could help me this would be great, hiragana is appreciated. I've asked many japanese but they aren't so good with English so they couldn't help me. 

I've got a couple of questions about the dependent-clause が to の conversion. Most importantly, aside from the case of のない, is it mandatory to replace が with の in certain situations, and if so, which? Also, what happens when you've got two items modified by verbs in one sentence? For instance, the sentence "I read a book written by an author my friend met". I'm coming up with: "(私は)友だち(が/の)会った著者(が/の)書いた本を読んだ". So - do both have to be の? Just one of them? Neither, and I'm completely misunderstanding the point/grounds of the conversion? Is it entirely up to the writer/speaker's discretion? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

edit: Oh, and as they come to me, a smorgasbord of unrelated bonus queries. 1) Is 考える the correct verb to use for wondering about something, with a quoting particle? ("I wondered, 'how did he become so famous?'") 2) "声がかれてしまうまで叫びたい" - what I'm trying to say is "I want to yell until I lose my voice" (in the context of being very angry, and what specifically it is I want to yell is delineated earlier in the sentence). Correct or not? 3) What's the best way to express "even though"? ても? Or is ても more strictly a nuance of "even if", indicating that the bit before it is a possibility rather something that definitely happens? (i.e., "even though it's raining, I'll go to the store".) How about のに? 4) You can use "としちゃ" to kind of change the subject/indicate a new thing you want to talk about as in "now, as for [x]...", right? 5) Which is better: "私は親が喧嘩してるのを見る時" or "私は親が喧嘩するのを見る時"? Are they both equally correct and it's just a matter of whether or not I want to say "when I see my parents fight" or "when I see my parents fighting"?

dear patient All,


i am making a special card for my japanese teachers. and i have no idea what to write...
i will bring the card over AFTER Jan 1.

can i write あけましておめでとうございます　as a separate line outside the text near the visual part　－ like HAPPY NEW YEAR! if not, what would be good?

aaand in terms of the message - what is traditionally written?

Thank you very much in advance!!!!!!!!

I'm looking to get another tattoo in kanji (like the one in my icon! :) but I want to make sure I have the characters right.

I need another two-character tattoo so it balances. I want it to say "polyamory" or some variation on the theme. I was looking at "many" and "love", but then I wasn't sure if using those literal translations together would form something like "giant slut".

So I'd like to know how "many" + "love" would translate, if there is a Japanese term for consensual non-monogamy, and any suggestions for a two-character tattoo in the said theme. Any help would be appreciated :)

Could someone help translate the bold phrase for me? I am completely lost at it.



早いもので、もう今年もあとわずかとなりましたね。

最近の朝は寒くてつらいです。

仙台にいたころは東京の寒さなんて平気だったのに、

今ではもう十分つらいです。(for this one, how is 十分 used?)


最近の僕は、一生懸命やってます。

Thanks in advance.

And also, merry (early) Christmas to all.

x-posted @ japanese

Could someone help translate the bold phrase for me? I am completely lost at it.



早いもので、もう今年もあとわずかとなりましたね。

最近の朝は寒くてつらいです。

仙台にいたころは東京の寒さなんて平気だったのに、

今ではもう十分つらいです。(for this one, how is 十分 used?)


最近の僕は、一生懸命やってます。

Thanks in advance.

And also, merry (early) Christmas to all.

I'm in the process of finishing a Marudai to give my mother for Christmas and thought I'd find a way to put the word Kumihimo on it in Japanese calligraphy. From what I have read it seems the most appropriate way to do this would be to use the hiragana characters ku-mi-hi-mo which would be rendered like this:

くみひも

Is this correct?

(I'd hate to carefully letter anything offensive on a woodworking piece I've worked so hard on...)

:)

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Hello and Happy Holidays, everyone! :)

I'm sending a necklace as a gift to my friend in Japan, and on the box there's a little poem written in English. It's written in cursive, so I wanted to help her out with understanding it 'cause I don't think the Japanese can read cursive English...? while practicing my Japanese. The poem says:

"Pearl of Wisdom
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away"

Now, I'm not good at translating English into poetic Japanese. :3 My guess came out as 「知恵の真珠　人生は数えきれない息吹をする事に計れない、でも、計れるのは瞬間に息を呑む。」I just know that it sounds stiff and that the structure is probably wrong. Could someone please help me form this into less laughable Japanese?

Hello!
At the moment i am busy with my term work, ant the theme is "Mass Media Language in the Japanese Language".
So, for now I'm gathering all kind of info, and I would appreciate it very much if you could advise some sourses concerning this particular thing.

Also, may be you know some special words that are used much in mass media (Internet, TV), I will include them as well.

Thank you!

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