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Hey everyone, I need help translating this English sentence into Japanase…
“I think Tadashi’s younger brother was good-looking when he was young.”
I’m thrown off by the ‘when he was young part’ … This is what I had:
ただしさんの弟が、若いの時には（？)、かっこいよかった。
Anybody know what the answer is?
It’s just 若い時. Alternately, 小さい時 or 子供の時. It’s present tense because it’s a relative cause (that is, relative to the main clause, it’s happening concurrently).
Just idly, though, what’s that よ doing in the middle of かっこいよかった?
It should be かっこよかった (without the い）。
I believe the いい of かっこいい turns into かっこよかった just like the いい for ‘good’ turns into よかった in past tense form. Additionally.. かっこよくなかった for ‘was not cool/good-looking.’
Is this wrong?
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かっこよかった is correct according to some Japanese natives here:
http://lang-8.com/183312/journals/50505101136041074439873998750093346597
One specifically states this:
“かっこよかった is correct. (かっこいかった is informal but can be understood as spoken Japanese.)”
Interesting!
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coclans.
Hm, I didn’t know that! I only learned かっこよかった in my Japanese class in Japan.
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