TextFugu » Topic: 08-19-2011 – Good Life #4 [ANSWERED] http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/feed/ Fri, 22 May 2026 00:08:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en-US http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15915 <![CDATA[08-19-2011 – Good Life #4 [ANSWERED]]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15915 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:50:02 +0000 koichi Saving the tough one for the weekend. Here’s your sentence for today!

こんなときなのにパパは新しい革靴がぬれるのを気にしていた。

We should break this one up to make it easier to translate. Can you convert the following bits to English?

1. こんなとき

2. 新しい革靴がぬれる

3. 気にしていた。

Now we have to paste it together with some grammar.

4. What does なのに mean?

5. What does のを do to a verb?

6. What does this sentence mean?

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]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15917 <![CDATA[Reply To: 08-19-2011 – Good Life #4]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15917 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:06:30 +0000 missingno15 Strange sentence, would be nice if I knew the context of what was going on

EDIT: never mind took me several reads to adjust my understanding. つまり、あのお父さんは空気が読めないヤツだ。KY　KY

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15928 <![CDATA[Reply To: 08-19-2011 – Good Life #4]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15928 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:57:33 +0000 marth17 this one was tough, especially cause I’m bad with kanji xD

1. at this time

2. new shoes got wet

3. took care

4. even though

5. it puts focus on the verb and what the verb is modifying?

6. I think it says something like “Even now Dad is taking care of his shoes that got wet”?

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15938 <![CDATA[Reply To: 08-19-2011 – Good Life #4]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15938 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:13:19 +0000 Elenkis 1. こんなとき = Such a time (referring to the clear day in previous sentence?)
2. 新しい革靴がぬれる = new leather shoes get wet
3. 気にしていた。 = Worried about/minded
4. なのに = despite this
5. のを = の nominalizes the verb and を marks it as direct object.
6. “Despite being such a clear day, Papa worried that his new leather shoes would get wet.”

More literally “Despite being such a time”, which I believe is referring to what was spoken about in the previous sentences. In other words the nice, sunny day that the speaker was born on.

Those are my guesses :)

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15942 <![CDATA[Reply To: 08-19-2011 – Good Life #4]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15942 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:21:29 +0000 マーク・ウェーバー And I still can’t understand one single word of this sentence xD

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15946 <![CDATA[Reply To: 08-19-2011 – Good Life #4]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15946 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:29:44 +0000 koichi @Mark – Bet you could figure 70-80% of it out, though, via jisho.org or and a couple google searches!

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15953 <![CDATA[Reply To: 08-19-2011 – Good Life #4]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15953 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:39:28 +0000 マーク・ウェーバー @Koichi You are right about that :) Don’t know how much I would Learn from that though :)

]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15955 <![CDATA[Reply To: 08-19-2011 – Good Life #4]]> http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/08-19-2011-good-life-4/#post-15955 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:59:43 +0000 koichi Probably not that much, but a little bit a day adds up fast :D

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