ているつもり

[kurisuto]

I was watching an episode of Inuyasha (btw, not sure everyone is interested, but apparently the new episodes will come out in fall) and someone said "お前の気持ちはよく分かっているつもりだ”. Could someone explain to me this use of つもり ? (I don't think context is really important on this one, but just in case, it is said by a young lord in response to a woman who basically told him "I thank you for your kindness, but I cannot become your wife")

[NocturnalOcean]

Tsumori doesn't have to be intention(as you are probably familiar with), but it can also be a conviction.

Such as 私はまだつもりだ. (I am convinced I am still young).

So if you apply that to your sentence, you can perhaps grasp it a bit better.

[Yudan Taiteki]

I was watching an episode of Inuyasha (btw, not sure everyone is interested, but apparently the new episodes will come out in fall) and someone said "お前の気持ちはよく分かっているつもりだ”. Could someone explain to me this use of つもり ? (I don't think context is really important on this one, but just in case, it is said by a young lord in response to a woman who basically told him "I thank you for your kindness, but I cannot become your wife")

When つもり occurs after a predicate that the speaker does not have control over, it means that has that belief or mindset. So for instance, できるつもりで行った means something like "I went in the belief that I could do it". 学生のつもりでいる is sort of like "I'm pretty sure I'm a student..." In my experience, it's typically used in cases where the belief is being challenged or denied in some way -- that is, できるつもりで行った sounds like it's being said by someone who actually found out that they couldn't do it once they went there.

お前の気持ちはよく分かっているつもりだ is a little hard without the next line, but it sounds to me like he's saying that he understands her feeling, but he's still going to try to marry her anyway or something like that.

[kurisuto]

Wow, you guys are quick ! Thank you for your explanations

[two_heads_talking]

Tsumori doesn't have to be intention(as you are probably familiar with), but it can also be a conviction.

Such as 私はまだつもりだ. (I am convinced I am still young).

So if you apply that to your sentence, you can perhaps grasp it a bit better.

I think, and perhaps I'm wrong, but you left the 'young' 'wakai' part out of the sentence..

[NocturnalOcean]

Tsumori doesn't have to be intention(as you are probably familiar with), but it can also be a conviction.

Such as 私はまだつもりだ. (I am convinced I am still young).

So if you apply that to your sentence, you can perhaps grasp it a bit better.

I think, and perhaps I'm wrong, but you left the 'young' 'wakai' part out of the sentence..

Haha, yeah you are right! Should be 私はまだ若いつもりだ