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gwho
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States632 Posts
June 04 2008 21:53 GMT
#1
so can anyone help? i've got a small compilation of endings used in animes but can't really tell... i'm korean so i know all about complex verb endings, but can anyone translate exactly what these are?


from naruto: dattebayo
from higurashi: "nano" desu (as opposed to "micro" desu? jk)
from shakugan: de-arimasu

thx in advance!

*
Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-04 22:00:05
June 04 2008 21:59 GMT
#2
Dunno about the other two, but some guy told me that dattebayo doesn't actually mean anything in Japanese (hence why with the American dubs they have him saying some other equally meaningless phrase at the end of most of his sentences (can't remember it atm though)).
UmmTheHobo
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States650 Posts
June 04 2008 22:01 GMT
#3
On June 05 2008 06:53 gwho wrote:
so can anyone help? i've got a small compilation of endings used in animes but can't really tell... i'm korean so i know all about complex verb endings, but can anyone translate exactly what these are?


from naruto: dattebayo
from higurashi: "nano" desu (as opposed to "micro" desu? jk)
from shakugan: de-arimasu

thx in advance!


I know dewa-arimasan is "is not" maybe de-arimasu is "will not"
...
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 22:04 GMT
#4
too much anime dude.
UmmTheHobo
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States650 Posts
June 04 2008 22:07 GMT
#5
On June 05 2008 07:04 thedeadhaji wrote:
too much anime dude.


Lol, I am actually learning japanese. I don't really watch that much anime.
...
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
June 05 2008 01:14 GMT
#6
lol haji

don't even bother with dattebayo, settle for Naruto being a dumbass. With Higurashi I assume you are talking about Rika, she speaks in a way that's...um...fitting for a little girl, no real translation either. I never figured out what that maid in Shakugan is trying to say with that, but far as I can tell it is just a weird way of formalizing her speech that has gone beyond that realm.
gwho
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States632 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-05 08:56:16
June 05 2008 08:55 GMT
#7
ahh.. as i suspected... random personal querks that have no meaning in real japanese at all...

i guess americans make reality shows about everything,
koreans make up motions + soundbites for "comedy"
and japanese make quirky verb endings for their anime characters... yep.
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
June 05 2008 09:32 GMT
#8
The pecularities in language allow for such things, that's all. Might as well as call it a pun. Besides, in some cases it makes great sense (Rika).
mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
June 05 2008 11:35 GMT
#9
needs more desu
the world's a playground. you know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
June 05 2008 14:32 GMT
#10
On June 05 2008 17:55 gwho wrote:
ahh.. as i suspected... random personal querks that have no meaning in real japanese at all...



Actually, I don't think that's quite the case, at least not for all of those endings.

Naruto's "dattebayo" is most likely a meaningless phrase, as most already replied, but the other two, I don't know. I think de arimasu, said by the maid in Shakugan no Shana is a proper phrase, much similar to our own 습니다 (sub ni da), etc. The middle phrase, no idea since I never watched/read Higurashi.
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