Re: Nerd Boy, episodes 129-134 (+ fan art)
From Joaquim Almgren G�ndara <cla...@lords.com>
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"Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> skrev i meddelandet news:0eo...@4ax.com... > On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:23:53 +0100, "Joaquim Almgren G�ndara" > <cla...@lords.com> wrote: > > > "Philip Newton" <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> skrev i > > meddelandet news:4b9...@4ax.com... > > > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 14:08:14 +0100, "Joaquim Almgren G�ndara" > > > <cla...@lords.com> wrote: > > > > > > > "Oshigoto wa nan desu ka" = "What is your profession?"/"What do you do?" > > > > "Nani o shimasu ka" = "What are you doing?" > > > > > > What about "Nani o shite imasu ka"? > > > > I don't know enough Japanese (yet) to know how the "-te" suffix works... But > > "imasu"? I've only seen that used for telling someone where a person is. > > Yes, but it's also used in a sense that I think is a bit like the > English present continuous (I'm ...ing): -te + imasu. So I think you > would translate "What do you do in the summer?" "I read books" as "Hon o > yomimasu", but "What are you doing right now?" "I'm reading a book" as > "Hon o yonde imasu". > > So I would have expected "Nani o shite imasu ka", because it's a > question about what the person is doing right now. But my Japanese > grammar isn't all that great, either. I think I've heard people say "Nani o shimasu ka" in anime, although of course that is actually no indication that the term is correct... -- http://www.ite.mh.se/~joaal98/ascii ___ __ _ _ _ ________ _ / \\\ \ \| `.| `.| `\ \ \ \ `.' \ [.[.]-\\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ _, \ /_ /|/ /\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (jg) {-} |= \__/`._|\_\_\_,_\__|\_\_\ \_\ #// (\
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