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| TedMilker Newbie United States Joined 5576 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 4 22 August 2009 at 2:51am | IP Logged | ||
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In the first Pimsleur course, they teach you:
yana otenki desu (sorry for the romaji only, could not get hiragana to work with the forum in Google Chrome) means "bad weather". However, I cannot find yana(or any spelling I can think of) in Jim Breen's dictionary to find the Kanji, if any. Am I just mangling the spelling horribly? Is this just an expression that stands alone? Or possibly just an outdated word? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5769 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 4 22 August 2009 at 3:02am | IP Logged | ||
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That'a because the word is pronounced いや/iya, not や/ya.
嫌(いや)な お天気(てんき) です it means something between 'the weather is uncomfortable' and 'the weather is abhorrent' (can't find the words in English, sorry) Edited by Bao on 22 August 2009 at 3:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TedMilker Newbie United States Joined 5576 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 4 22 August 2009 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ahh! Thanks a lot! Listening to it a few more times, I can definitely here that i in
front of ya. I will have to keep that in mind in the future. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5138 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 4 of 4 15 January 2018 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | ||
I didn't know that the Kanji for "kirai" can be pronounced as "iya". Since "iya" means "no", can we use that single Kanji to express a rejection or a negative answer? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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