HOW DO I SAY "…." THREAD

[missingno15Member]

Awesome how we finally have a forum with split up categories but even with that, people might keep on going with the annoying threads with stuff like “HOW DO I SAY” so let’s keep it all in one thread!

[SheepyModerator]

Awesome, although it would have been better if you didn’t use all caps.

[missingno15Member]

nah its all good, just saying it like it is

[koichiMember]

GRIMLOCK LIKES CAPS.

Would “How Do I Say” be a forum within the Japanese Language Forum, or its own forum on the front page (I’d say it’s probably not this one). If it is its own forum in the Japanese Language Forum, there would probably have to be other similar sub-forums like the “How Do I Say” forum, too.

That being said, I think I’ll wait a little bit for this forum to get a little more busy before adding sub-forums, but I think that’s a good idea, tho!

[Narcoleptic LTDMember]

CAPSLOCK IS AUTOPILOT FOR COOL

Actually, what would be the equivalent of capslock in Japanese? Putting a dash between every character?

[koichiMember]

Good question… I dunno. Maybe writing in katakana? Seems like it would be irritating like ALL CAPS.

Don’t quote me on that, tho…

[SheepyModerator]

Yeah maybe writing in Katakana like キタ！！ but its still not the same I think :P

Anyway, I think a single thread is ok, and we’ll still have separate threads for more in depth questions.

[Anonymous]

It seems the exclamation mark has been lost and replaced simply with allcaps. Maybe, just an idea I’m putting out there, Japanese use an ! instead of utter hurrdurr that is allcaps.

Just sayin’

[thisiskyleMember]

This isn’t really a “How do you say…” since I think I got it right (please correct me if it’s not). I just think its funny…
If I had not been allowed to eat candy by my dad, I think I would be thin.
私は父にあめを食べさせられくれなければ、やせていると思います。

食べさせられくれなければ that’s some verb conjugation eh?

[thisiskyleMember]

the edit button is gone and I just realized that there’s nothing in there indicating the tense.
maybe it should be
食べさせられくれなかったら…
back to the books I guess

[MisterM2402 [Michael]Member]

As far as I’m aware, the verb 染める（そめる） means to dye/colour something, like an item of clothing (though correct me if it has a different meaning). How would I say “I will dye the t-shirt red.”?

My first thought would be to make 赤い[red] into an adverb (i.e. 赤く) to form a sentence like this: ティシャートを赤く染める。
Does that even work? It doesn’t seem quite right to me because then how would you do the same with 緑[green] (not an adjective, right?)?

Saying 赤いティシャートを染める。makes it sound more like you are dying a t-shirt that’s already red.

There is probably some particle I don’t know yet that deals with this sorta stuff. Hold on… I have a feeling 「で」 is involved somehow…

Danke.

• This reply was modified 13 years, 6 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

[ElenkisMember]

From the 研究社 dictionary:

髪を黒く[茶色に]染める
dye one’s hair black[brown]

[koichiMember]

Adverb one you wrote should work!

[MisterM2402 [Michael]Member]

Nice :D Got it first time :P

So for the “noun” colours 「緑、紫、茶色、金、etc.」, you treat them like な-adjectives and add the に? Are there any other nouns that can be transformed this way or is this a quirk unique to colours?

Thanks again :)

[TanneMember]

Saying “I want to” is easy. But what do you say for “he wants to”?

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