Finally another post!! I'm trying to catch up to my Twitter posts. I'm also figuring out the least-cluttering way to order the contents of Tumblr posts;; Feel free to give me some tips if you have any haha
Please take my explanations with a grain of salt. I'm still learning as well, and I simply hope my ramblings will be an interesting way to make vocabulary stick more easily. Actual dictionary websites will always give more accurate descriptions, so it's recommended to check them if you're not a casual learner.
0:10 ～ヅラ: acting as if a...
葛葉 「あーやばい、先輩ヅラし始めた」
> Uh oh, now he's acting like a senpai.
The kanji for this is 面, but never really used in this context.
0:30 ～づらい: hard to...
葛葉 「俺もなんか…声かけづらいわ」
> It's also... kinda hard for me to reach out.
37:30
葛葉 「音聞こえづらかったんで、ちょっとイヤホンを変えました」
> It was hard to hear with, so I changed my earphones.
Usage similar ～やすい from the previous post, but with opposite meaning!
1:45 仕方がない: it cannot be helped
葛葉 「しゃーないでしょ」
＝しょうがないでしょ＝仕方がないでしょ
I wanted to point out that you can speak so fast that しかたがない becomes shortened to しゃーない...
2:25 ノータッチ: not being concerned by/involved in
叶 「××の部分分かる？分かるのね？」
> Do you know what the XX part is? You do, right?
葛葉 「と、すぷれあの四人です。」
> ...And, the four from Splare.
叶 「ノータッチやめろって」
> Stop acting like it has nothing to do with you.
In other words, stop "avoiding" the question, stop "refusing to touch upon" the topic, stop "not touching" it... so "no touch."
It's interesting how the "no" here has more of the meaning "to not want to," instead of "to not be allowed," which is what it would be in English.
3:07 春雨、コンソメ: Glass noodles, Consommé
Foods that are common in Japan, but I personally have never heard of! I do know glass noodles, just not that they're called "spring rain" (which is very pretty). Consommé is French, and I'm still not exactly sure what it tastes like... It's called "French broth" in Mandarin;;
4:20 宗教: religion
一橋 「世界征服をするなら手始めに何から始める？」
> If you were to take over the world, where would you start?
叶 「宗教。」
> Religion.
葛葉 「宗教だね。」
> Religion, right?
4:40 ガッツリ: a lot, a great deal, properly, fully
一橋 「ゲームの世界に入るとしたら、どの世界がいい？」
> If you could enter a game's world, which would you choose?
叶 「戦いたい、ガッツリ」
> I want to fight. A lot.
I'm not really satisfied with this translation. Somehow, ガッツリsounds like a lot more than just "a lot"...
I remember this word by thinking the pronuncation sounds like "guts," and it's "doing so much that your guts are going to spill out." It works!
4:45 競う: to compete, to contest
叶 「だから、牧場物語。」
> [following the above] So, Harvest Moon.
葛葉 「どこ？牧場物語の…どこで戦ってんの？誰と競ってるの」
> Where in Harvest Moon...? Where are you fighting? Who are you fighting with?
There are actually two words used for fighting here. 戦うgives more of an impression of physically fighting, to wage war, like Eren saying 戦え！Meanwhile, 競うis just competing things in general, such as grades and elections.
5:15 人身事故: accident resulting in personal injury or death (esp. traffic, rail, etc.)
葛葉 「マリカとかヤバいぞ」
> [Entering the world of] Mario Kart would be insane.
叶 「普通に人身事故だもんね」
> It'd just be traffic accidents all over the place.
I was really bothered that this word for "accident" specifies people getting hurt, but the words "traffic accident" in English would be anything from minor bumps to cars exploding...? I feel that the punchline is slightly weakened if I take out the dying part.
"Imagine Mario Kart IRL. The accidents would go crazy" compared to "Imagine Mario Kart IRL. People would drop dead like flies"... My interpretation might not be accurate, though...!!!
5:45 チョレギ、青じそ: Choregi dressing, perilla leaf dressing
I am not well-versed in the vocabulary of salad dressings.
6:45 老後後: old-old-age
一橋 「最強の老後の暮らしはどんな感じ？」
> What's the best way to spend elderly life?
葛葉 「人間なら冷凍とかじゃない？」
> For humans, you freeze them, right?
叶 「老後っていうか…老後後すぎない？」
> That's not elderly life... Isn't that too elderly?
老後, word by word, is "old-after", and Kanae is asking, "Rather than old-after, isn't that more like, old-after-after?" The original is a bit funnier.
Kuzuha's sentence is literally, "If it's humans, it's freezing, right?"
Without any omissions, which happens a lot in Japanese, the full sentence is: "Different from vampires which are already immortal, humans are preserved through freezing or something, right?"
My subtitle almost makes it sound like he's going to freeze some random humans he has on hand, but obviously, based on context, that isn't what's going on. Unless?
8:05 万能: all-purpose, almighty
葛葉 「万能だよね、時間止めるのは」
> It is pretty useful to stop time.
叶 「全てにおいて、何でもできるでしょ」
> It can do anything in any way, right?
万能, word by word, is ten-thousand-abilities, AKA invincible.
...Invincible is the word I should've used!!! I wanted something a little more colloquial than almighty. It's already been two months since I posted the clip, though...
9:40 下げる: to lower
五木 「ライバー一年目の自分へ、今の自分から一言送るならば？」
> A message you'd tell yourself during your first year of being a liver?
叶 「そのままで良いよ。」
> You're fine the way you are.
葛葉 「感度下げろ。」
> Lower your mouse sensitivity.
Something confusing about verbs is that there are 他動詞(transitive) and 自動詞(intransitive) verbs. For example, 消す and 消える both mean "turning off a light", but the former is for "doing the action of turning off a light", while the latter is "light turning off on its own". If someone turned off the lights in your room, you'd say that they 消す the light; if there was a sudden blackout and the lights flickered off, you'd say the lights 消える(incorrect conjugation for comprehensibility). The sentence structures when using these verbs are a little different, too.
下げる is a transitive verb, and the intransitive version is 下がる. Kuzuha 下げる the sensitivity; the sensitivity is 下がる.
11:40 屈指: leading, foremost
叶 「僕ら過激だけど大丈夫？」
> We're pretty intense though, is that okay?
葛葉 「にじさんじ過激派？」
> Nijisanji intense side?
葛葉 「どこが？屈指の根暗じゃない？」
> How? Aren't we the leading gloomy ones?
葛葉 「過激派はろふまおとかだから。」
> The intense ones are ROFMAO or something.
Another example sentence for this word can be found around 14:23 of this clip. Here's the transcription:
葛葉 「格好良くない？ハウル」
> Howl's really cool, isn't he?
叶 「屈指の格好良さじゃん。」
> He's like, the leading coolness[of Ghibli characters].
Personally, I like Haku more.
12:49 怯える: to be frightened of
蝸堂 「何分遅刻まで堂々とできますか。」
> How many minutes are you able to be late without shame?
叶 「遅刻したって怯える必要はない。」
> There's no need to be afraid of running late.
叶 「なぜなら遅刻したということは変わらないのだから。」
> After all, it won't change the fact that you ran late.
叶 「堂々と謝ろう。」
> Apologize boldly.
Although it's not the word I highlighted for this card, 変わるis an intransitive verb, and 変えるis the transitive one. The fact you ran late won't 変わる, even if you can try to 変える that.
13:13 表記ゆれ: variation in spelling, inconsistency in spelling
叶 「五分遅れって書いてるもん」
> It says, "five minutes late."
葛葉 「これ表記ゆれだよ」
> That's just mispelling [so it doesn't count as being late].
I feel like I understand this concept in theory, but not actually. The joke Kuzuha's making here is that the 遅 from 遅刻 and 遅れ is read differently, but that still doesn't help me understand the punchline... Nothing to teach here, just listing another thing that I might've not translated well. Hopefully I'll understand this joke when I look back at this in a year or so!
13:55 ～ちゃう: to do something accidentally
叶 「忘れちゃうんだよね、一回既読したものって、その後」
> It's easy to forget them once you've read them once.
ちゃうis a less formal way of sayingてしまう! It's used really often. You won't stop noticing it if you look out for it. 忘れちゃった、遅刻しちゃう、全部食べちゃった、死んじゃった！all use this.
15:00 意欲: motivated, ambitious
蝸堂 「お互いに尊敬しているところを教えてください！」
> Please tell me something you respect about each other!
叶 「全て。」
> Everything.
葛葉 「まあ、意欲的だなとは…」
> Well, I do think that he's pretty ambitious...
欲 means "the desire to". 食欲, food desire, means appetite. 性欲, sex desire, means... sexual desire. Yeah.
16:09 解像度: how well one understands a person or thing
夜牛 「いつか『きゃりあうーまん』になりたいと思っている。」
> She wants to become a "career woman" one day.
葛葉 「ひらがなだよ。解像度が低いんでしょ」
> In hiragana. She's not very locked in. / Doesn't sound like she knows what she's doing. / That's hard to imagine. (etc.)
This one is really hard to explain, so I'll keep looking for similar examples...!
16:15 バリキャリ: a superwoman
叶 「キャリアウーマンって何なの？仕事する人？」
> What's a career woman? Someone who works?
葛葉 「バリキャリ。」
> A superwoman.
Apparently, バリキャリ stands for バリバリ働くキャリアウーマン, so "a career woman who works a TON"? Dictionaries say that superwoman can mean an exceptional woman, so I went with that, but I don't know if English speakers even say that nowadays. It reminds me of that picture book that says all mothers are superwoman. Which is true.
18:20 白滝、こんにゃく: Shirataki, Konnyaku
Shirataki is a type of translucent, gelatinous Japanese noodles... that basically sounds like harusame!?
It seems that harusame is dry, and shirataki is wet. And shirataki is made FROM konnyaku... Since they're talking about oden ingredients, shirataki are the noodle-tied-into-bowties, and konnyaku are slabs of jelly. Excuse the vague description I thought of from searching up images on Google.
18:50 似て非なる: similar but different
葛葉 「ドーラは？サラマンダー？ドレイクか」
> How about Dola? Is she a salamander? No, she's a drake, huh.
葛葉 「ちょっと似て非なるものか」
> A little similar but different.
I searched up drake and only got images of the rapper. He's canadian!?
Asexual drake...
19:45 大喜利: improvisation one-liners
十河 「こんな吸血鬼は嫌だ。どんな吸血鬼？」
> I hate these types of vampires. Which types?
叶 「やめろって大喜利、質問で出してくるの」
> Stop sending prompts in these questions.
The definition "quiz-like (TV) comedy segment in which participants improvise one-liners based on a given theme" is much more clearer than "prompt," but it was the best word I could think of! Japanese variety shows really like that kind of stuff, huh.
21:50 一反木綿: Ittan-momen(one bolt of cotton)
Floating white cloths. That choke people. Japanese folklore! There are a few yokai I've heard of, but this isn't one of them.
22:50 派: group
猫屋敷 「犬派ですか？猫派ですか？」
> Are you a dog person? Or a cat person?
There's no English word, but you hear this a lot in both Japanese in Mandarin(pai, 4th tone). For any kind of "pick a side between these two" situation, you'd use it: kinoko/takenoko, cereal before/after milk, etc.
23:40 かろうじて, 繰り上がり: narrowly / to move up in rank or order
葛葉 「まさかリーダーっぽい人が一人もいない」
> To think that there isn't a single leader-like person at all.
葛葉 「かろうじて繰り上がりでリーダーだよね」
> She was narrowly promoted to leader, right?
24:30 管轄: jurisdiction
皇 「ライブでのかわいいキメポーズを伝授してほしい！」
> I'd like you to teach me a cute pose to strike during a live!
葛葉 「ちょっとそれ管轄外なんで。」
> That's a little outside of my jurisdiction.
叶 「わかんない～」
> I dunno~
25:00 予備: reserve, spare
皇 「三角チョコパイ何口で食べれますか！！！」
> How many bites can you finish a triangle choco pie in!!!
葛葉 「一、二、三、四、五…予備で六」
> One, two, three, four, five... and just in case, six.
We've been starting to get Japan-core-McDonalds-specials in Taiwan recently, and I got to eat a triangle pie for the first time the other day. It would probably take me about eight to ten bites to finish, especially because the filling kept dripping out and was a bit of a hassle to eat.
This is the same "reserve" from the "reserve course" in Danganronpa!! 予備学科の日向くん！
26:10 カンニング, 控える: cheating on exams / to be in preparation for, to be in waiting for
皇 「カンニングってしたことありますか？もしあればどんな方法か教えてください」
> Have you ever cheated on tests before? If you have, please teach me some tips.
葛葉 「何、控えてる？テスト」|
> What? Are you studying for something? / Do you have a test coming up?
控える also means to hold back, to take notes, and to be in a close relationship? 控 usually means "control" in mandarin, so I was confused at first. Kanji really can mean anything, huh.
27:25 合: traditional unit of volume, approx. 180 ml(rice)
篠宮 「今まで一食でお米は何合食べたことありますか？篠宮は一食三合までなら経験あります。」
> How much go of rice was the most you've eaten up until now? Shinomiya has eating 3 go in one meal before.
28:05 ドクターストップ: Doctor's orders
葛葉 「それドクターストップ、さすがに」
> Don't do that. Doctor's orders.
Very confused if this is a meme or an actual saying.
29:30 跳び箱: vaulting box
I just wanted to comment that it seems vaulting boxes aren't a thing in most English-speaking countries! It seems that it's something only gymnasts learn to use. Which means not everyone had to attempt and fail to jump over boxes in front of the whole class as a P.E. requirement...? :/
30:45 状態: condition
城瀬 「ねむり姫状態（めっちゃ寝てします）から抜け出す方法を教えてください」
> Please teach me how to break free from the sleeping beauty condition(falling asleep a lot)
葛葉 「うわ～すぷれあ…待ってたよ、君たちを…！」
> Wow, Splare... I've been waiting for you...!
叶 「何や、ねむり姫状態って。起きろ！」
> The hell is a sleeping beauty condition? Wake up!
31:25 ～なくちゃいけない: need to ~
叶 「スキルブック、あれ嫌なんだよね」
> I don't like the skill book.
叶 「左手に持ってなくちゃいけないじゃん」
> Because you need to hold it in your left hand, right?
なくてはいけないis the full form of this. There are a million ways to say "need" that I'll get into some other time(because I don't remember them either haha).
32:30 滝行: waterfall training
城瀬 「すぷれあにやってほしい企画は？」
> Any projects you'd like Splare to do?
葛葉 「滝行。やっぱ高校生なんで、一回…」
> Waterfall training. Since you're high schoolers, just once...
叶 「高校生の時に、滝行やってるイメージある？」
> You think high schoolers go waterfall training?
33:10 音符: musical note
葛葉 「なんか音符ついてる。なんかあるのかな」
> There are music notes. Does that mean something?
Onpu is also the name of the purple one in Ojamajo Doremi ♪
33:40 数こなす: go through many experiences
城瀬 「ホラー克服の仕方を教えてください。」
> Please teach me how to overcome horror.
葛葉 「数こなす」
> Get through them.
Check here for more explanations. In this context, it means that you should play a lot of horror to get over it. Like exposure therapy!! EXPOSURE THERAPY!!! Maybe I should've written that instead!!!!!
37:10 ～れる・～ない: potential and negative forms
花籠 「後輩と二人で行ける場所のラインはどこまで？」
> Where's the furthest you'd go with a kouhai?
葛葉 「どこでも行けるけど、どこにも行かないね。」
> I could go anywhere, but I won't go anywhere.
叶 「どこにも行かない。どこでも行けるよ」
> I won't go anywhere. I could do anywhere, though.
I think this is a nice example explaining the difference between "can" and "will".
I'm getting a lot of work done because there's no school for a week!
By the time I'm posting this, the break is probably already over, though...
Tomodachi Life next week. (ﾉ･д･)ﾉ
