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| XellKhaar Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5723 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese | Message 1 of 3 14 April 2009 at 5:46am | IP Logged | ||
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What does the sentence: "anna koto saenakereba" mean in English?
I can barely even find references to any of these words online.. does anyone know what each of these words mean and what the sentence means? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nissimb Tetraglot Groupie India tenjikuyamato.blogsp Joined 6416 days ago 79 posts - 102 votes  Speaks: Marathi*, Hindi, English, Japanese Studies: Korean, Esperanto, Indonesian | Message 2 of 3 14 April 2009 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Anna koto sae nakereba "If only something like that would not have happened.."
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| ericspinelli Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5785 days ago 249 posts - 493 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Italian | Message 3 of 3 14 April 2009 at 9:14am | IP Logged | ||
あんな is part of the こんな / そんな / あんな / どんな set, meaning "this/that/what kind of." こと is 事, or thing/concept. さえ, which expresses a minimum, is explained here (Tae Kim's). なければ is the conditional form of ない. Although Tae doesn't explain it explicitly, he does give an example of さえ + a conditional. As was nissimb said, all together it means something like, "If only that sort of thing didn't happen/exit." You could even reasonably, if loosely, translate it as "barring something like that." 1 person has voted this message useful |
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