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Can 決めてない mean "crazy"?
Context: after the commander of a platoon (小隊長) says some apparently incomprehensible things, one of the soldiers whispers to another:
「こいつ、なんか決{き}めてないか？」
What is the meaning of 決める/決めてない here? ...
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How to translate わからない in the following sentence
Context: a boxer named Yanagi is fighting against an opponent named Hyodo. Although Hyodo is really young, he is considered a very talented boxer and is often called genius (天才). Yanagi is thinking ...
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What does 「夢{ゆめ}に触{ふ}れる」 mean?
It's part of the lyrics of a song. The actual line is:
どれほど夢{ゆめ}に触{ふ}れている?
I checked the definitions of 触れる as an intransitive verb on Weblio and came to the conclusion that this is most likely ...
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Which verb means "to pet <an animal>"?
I was trying to translate "May I pet the dog?", but I'm having trouble finding what word means "to pet".
Looking it up on jisho.org I get 可愛がる, but translating it back using various services gives me ...
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What form is 急がば in 急がば回れ? [duplicate]
What form is this. how do you use it and is it only used for proverbs? The closest I know for the verb Isogu is Isoganai or Isogeba, but not Isogaba.
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む archaic volitional? Translated as Imperative [duplicate]
While watching Konosuba I came across following sentence:
「我が真紅の流出もて 白き世界を覆さん」
What troubles me is the 「覆さん」. The translation used an imperative here, what fits most of the other spells in the ...
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Meaning of 小せェもんに縛られてる
Context: in a flashback, a Cuban boxer is thinking back to when he was in Cuba before seeking asylum (亡命) and migrating to America. He had just won a gold medal for his country in the Olympics.
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What does やられてる mean in this sentence?
I came across this line today which left me a bit confused:
彼らには子分を二人もやられてる。
The speaker is referring to men from a gang. I've struggled with the meaning of やる outside of its most basic usage, but ...
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What is the meaning of 上げて落としたみてー?
I'm reading this manga, and came accross the following monologue:
たかが弦ごときで世界の終わりみてーなツラしやがって
俺が上げて落としたみてーで後味ワリーだろがッ
俺の昼寝返せ!!!
I can't understand what 上げて落としたみて means. Is this an expression? Are those ...
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Meaning of もったいぶらず in the following sentence
Context: while talking about himself, a boxer says:
今持ってるモノはもったいぶらず全て出す。それが俺の武器に繋がるんでねェ。拳に表れるんだよォ ――――[生き方]【スタイル】ってヤツは。
According to dictionaries, the meaning of もったいぶらない is unpretentious, modest. ...
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Meaning of 身分をわきまえず
Context: a martial arts master is talking (offensively, I think) about one of his students:
たばこを栽培する山から降りて来たサルですよ。うちの武術学校にスカウトされたからと身分をわきまえず李【り】と組んで演武を狂わす厄介者なんです。
What is the meaning of 身分をわきまえず? ...
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past tense vs non-past in a book
I'm reading 大きな森の小さな家 (Little House in the Big Woods).
This sequence of sentences are all describing a particular occurrence in the past, but some sentences are in non-past forms:
ある晩、父さんは、...
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Explanation of でもあります？ [duplicate]
I saw this in my Genki I book and I don’t quite understand how to use でもあります. Also, how would I say this informally? パットはアメリカ人でもある？
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Verb (とどめる) and its meaning in these sentences
I was looking for the meaning of the verb (とどめる) and how it differs from (とめる). I understood that (とどめる) means (to stop "potentially" from moving). But how does that meaning relate to the following ...
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Can you answer the question 何を飲みますか？ with 水です。?
It doesn’t seem that natural, as 水です seems to mean “It is water”, rather than a shorter form of 水を飲みます.
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