Translation check (and help)

[mrfusion]

I'm trying to read a manga book and I'd like someone to check my translation please.

Book　　 My　translation

死社界　　 Death　God World

まいにち　同じ事の　　　　It's the same thing every day.
くり　かえ　し　　　　　　　　repeatedly.

つまらね?　　　　　　　　　(Not sure of this one but I think it's
something like ' I'm bored')

このまは This world bites? (tooth doesn't make any sense)

腐つてる　　　　　　　　　　　(Really not sure about this one. Something
about 'shine')

にん　間　界　　　　　　　　　Human time world?



So, am I close?

Thanks

[Mukade]

死社界

= This is no word that I know of. It's most likely a word created by the author. "The World of the God of the Dead/God of Death" is a pretty good translation, I'd say. If that's too long/awkward for you, you could take the liberty of transliterating it to something like "The Underworld."


まいにち同じ事のくりかえし、つまらね

= This is onaji koto no kurikaeshi, so, as far as a direct translation goes, rather than "...the same thing everyday. repeatedly," it would be more like "the repetition of the same thing everyday..."

= tsumarane is, indeed, "boring." The inflection here is a very colloquial, spoken variant. This gives a strange impression. If the speaker is, indeed, a god or some such, he is certainly not speaking very god-like. One way you might capture this sense in the translation would be to say "Argh! It's the same thing everyday, over and over....I'm so bored!"


このまは腐ってる

= kusaru is "to rot," so this would literally be "This world is rotting/rotten."


にん間界

= ningen is "human being," and so this would just be "The World of Humans/Humankind."

mrfusion wrote:

So, am I close?

Yes, very good job.

[mrfusion]

Domo arigato Mukade sensei.

[mrfusion]

Mukade wrote:

このまは 腐ってる

= kusaru is "to rot," so this would literally be "This world is rotting/rotten."

One more question. What happens to the "te" in this sentance?
I was looking up 'kusateru' as one word and 'kusa teru' as two, but
didn't know I should be looking for 'kusaru'. Where'd the 'te' go?

Watashino zuno wa boseki !!

[Gaijinian]

Already been answered...

[momotaro]

How do i get a pic nex to my name. I wan't to know that too, Gaijin.

[Daisuke]

Very much off topic! But anyways: You can set up an avatar where you edit your profile. The Picture must be a jpg or gif file, and it have to be under 200x200 pixels.

[Mukade]

mrfusion wrote:

Mukade wrote:

このまは 腐ってる

= kusaru is "to rot," so this would literally be "This world is rotting/rotten."

One more question. What happens to the "te" in this sentance?
I was looking up 'kusateru' as one word and 'kusa teru' as two, but
didn't know I should be looking for 'kusaru'. Where'd the 'te' go?

When you see a small "tsu" + "te," it means the verb is in Te-form. Some examples of verbs and their Te-form:

食べる　ー＞　食べて
見る　　ー＞　見て
聞く　　ー＞　聞いて
飲む　　ー＞　飲んで
する　　ー＞　して

Te-form can be used to do a lot of things.

* As-is, it can indicate a rough command.
聞いて！ "Listen!"

* Add iru to it, and you get the Present Progressive.
聞いている。 "Listening."

And so on.

Anyway, a dictionary won't list the verb according to its Te-form, so you have to work backwards to its Dictionary Form and look it up that way.

Of course to do that, you have to know how the Te-form is constructed...

[hihlordjp]

Out of curiosity, mrfusion, what is the name of that manga?

[mrfusion]

It's called Deathnote. I've got a pretty good idea of the story from
the pictures, but it's great to be able to decipher the actual words.

[mrfusion]

Mukade wrote:

Anyway, a dictionary won't list the verb according to its Te-form, so you have to work backwards to its Dictionary Form and look it up that way.

Of course to do that, you have to know how the Te-form is constructed...

Many thanks Mukade sensei.

The more I learn the less I know......
Now I really do have a headache!

[Mukade]

mrfusion wrote:

The more I learn the less I know......
Now I really do have a headache!

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