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| mishels Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 5783 days ago 39 posts - 39 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 5 11 June 2009 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know Japanese yet but I am interested in learning it.
I am in the process of learning other languages at the moment so I won't start now, but I have a question. I found out that in some types of japanese scripts a letter actually equate to a constant and a vowel together. Like "te". I am interested in finding out how can I write in Japanese "TE VA". I assumed it would be the letter for TE and a letter for VA but my search led me to finding different combinations of letters but nothing with the letter V (or some other letters). Does the sould of V is absent in the Japanese language? if not, how do I write in Japanese what would sound like "TE VA". Another question. I was looking for the word "Nature" in Japanese (TE VA is nature in Hebrew) but google translate and alta vista babel fish gave me different translations to that word and since I don't know Japanese, I have no clue which one is the right one. Believing that humans are more accurate in translation than computers, I turn to you, Japanese speakers/learners for help. How to I write the word for Nature in Japanese? Thank you very much for your help, Mishel. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6264 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 2 of 5 11 June 2009 at 6:32pm | IP Logged |
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Japanese doesn't originally have a V sound. For loan words that have a V sound, they either use B or a modification of U that is supposed to be pronounced as a V sound.
So you can write "te va" as テヴァ(teva) or テバ(teba). For "nature" I'll suggest the word 自然(shizen). There might be a better word out there though. I'm not sure what kind of "nature" you mean. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mishels Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 5783 days ago 39 posts - 39 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English Studies: German, French | Message 3 of 5 11 June 2009 at 9:14pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the quick reply!
I mean nature as in the wild, forests, deserts, animals, outdoor, plants and all of those things that have nothing to do with human beings and their cities/industrialism and such. I don't mean the nature as behavior of people/things. Is the word you gave (shizen) good for that? Thanks, Mishel. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mishels Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 5783 days ago 39 posts - 39 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English Studies: German, French | Message 4 of 5 11 June 2009 at 11:17pm | IP Logged |
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One more question...
What type of font do I need to type in 自然 in Word? I got a free Japanese font that looked nice but it didn't recognize those characters. What type of writing is this word in? Thanks, Mishel. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5725 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 5 of 5 11 June 2009 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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Mishel, 自然 is made of kanji (Chinese characters used in Japanese). If you have Japanese input on your wordprocessor, type in "shizenn" and you'll have it written in hiragana. Then, while the phrase is underlined, hit the space bar and you'll get a list of the possible kanji...it may even automatically convert it to 自然 on the first try.
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