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[themonk]

Mr. Bear, Mr. Bear
Line 1 Kuma san maware migi

Line 2 kuma san ryoote o tsuite
Translation by the book is "put your two hands on the ground." Where is the word for "two " ? i am guessing that "te" in "ryoote" is hand/hands. ...

[chikara]

Dear Teachers - -
i came across this in one of the songs i have learned (as a supplement to my study).

Mr. Bear, Mr. Bear
Line 1 Kuma san maware migi

Line 2 kuma san ryoote o tsuite
Translation by the book is "put your two hands on the ground." Where is the word for "two " ? i am guessing that "te" in "ryoote" is hand/hands. ...

The word "two" is not there but 両手 (りょうて) means "both hands".

Line 3 kuma san kata ashi agete
What is "kata" doing here, since i already knew that "ashi" means "leg"? ...

方 (かた) meaning "way of" or "manner of". 方足 by foot? Not sure on that.

Line 4 kuma san sayoonara

We Can Hear the Frog Sing
Line 1 Kaeru no uta ga, kikoete kuru yo
"Kikoete" means "can hear." So what is the role of "kuru"? ...

Kikoete is "to be heard" or "to be audible" not "can hear" the "kuru" gives the meaning "can be heard".

Line 2 Kwa kwa kwa kwa ....

Are you sure it is kwa and not gwa? I thought the sound of frogs,croak and ribbit, in Japanese is gwa and gero?

[blutorange]

Line 3 kuma san kata ashi agete
What is "kata" doing here, since i already knew that "ashi" means "leg"?

It's 「片足」, one leg, 片 meaning "one (of a pair)".

Kikoete is "to be heard" or "to be audible" not "can hear" the "kuru" gives the meaning "can be heard".

I would say -ete (from 得る) gives the "can" and kuru the "be ~ed" part. Anyway.

Blutorange

[Hyperworm]

聞こえる isn't a potential verb itself and, as far as I know, has no connection to 得（え）る.
It's just a fundamentally different way of expressing the idea of audibility, compared to English.

聞こえる
１ 音・声などが耳で感じられる。自然に耳に入る。「汽笛が―・える」
(1) [Of a sound, voice etc] To be perceived by the ears. To naturally enter the ears.

歌が聞こえる the song is perceived by the ears / enters the ears
(I hear the song)

Examined this way, ～てくる can be seen in its normal function "this verb happens while in a sense approaching the speaker".
"the song comes entering(into) the ears", or "the song will come entering the ears".

It could be taken as emphasizing the apparent distance/faintness of the sound
（遠くから聞こえてくる音）
or the fact that you only just begun hearing it
（あ、今聞こえてきた）.
It also seems like it can describe the situation from a more third-person perspective...?

How to translate this is another question...

[furrykef]

Line 2 Kwa kwa kwa kwa ....

Are you sure it is kwa and not gwa? I thought the sound of frogs,croak and ribbit, in Japanese is gwa and gero?

I can't attest to "kwa" vs. "gwa", but frogs can definitely say either "kero" or "gero". For example, Slippy Toad in the video game Star Fox uses both "kero" and "gero".

[themonk]

Dear Teachers ~
Thank you for your emails.

@Teacher Chikara: I checked the book. It is Kwa.