Japanese How do you say...?

Hi, bye, I love anime, oh dear, any kind of swear word, thank you, oh and could you tell me how to say it right. Like pronuciate b/c I am bad at saying things the right way.

Thanks this would make me happy I have always wonder what and how to say this stuff.

 

Hi is, depending on the time of day konnichiwa(good afternoon)[koe-nn-nee-chee-wah], konbanwa(good evening)[koe-nn-bah-nn-wah], or ohayo(good morning)[oh-hah-yoe], konnichiwa being the most common.
Bye is sayonara[sah-yoe-nah-rah], or you can use ja mata ne, mata ne, or ja ne to say see you later[jah mah-tah neh].
I love anime is anime ga suki[ah-nee-meh gah ss-key].
Any kind of swear word = oushikuso(bullshit)[ooh-shee-kuh-soe], or if you want to call somone stupid then baka, aho or bayayurou[bah-kah, ah-hoe, bah-kah-yue-row].
Thank you is arigatou[ah-ree-gah-toe].
And I think that's it

 

For "good night" there's oyasumi

"oh dear" is usually ara (often "ara, ara")

yaro, added to things like "baka yaro" or "konno yaro" is along the lines of a$$, dumba$$, or f**ker. More joking is "baka-san" (Mr. Idiot). Baka is a general-purpose swear word.



*NB: to make it more confusing, it actually matters to whom you are speaking
(ie: " 'hayo" is for friends, "ohayo" is for people close to your age, "ohayo gozaimasu" is formal.
also: "chiwa" is used for those - not your good friends - around your age. For "oyasumi" you also have "oyasuminasai")

(stick "gozaimasu" at the end of almost anything and it'll become formal)

 

Forgot to include that.

Anyway, don't blame me for what the UC prof tells me (the man has a Spanish accent and teaches a saturday course, so I don't always trust him)

 

"Osu" is also a way to say hi, but it's not that formal. So I suggest that you use it with friends rather than teachers and stuff. And guys have a tendency to say it more oftern than girls.

 

hmm...what hasn't been said?

shimatta [she-ma-a-ta]=pretty much means damnit.

jaa [ja (short a like in father]= see you. jaa mata ne [ja ma-ta nay] is like see you later or again.

un [long u-n] is an informal yes, and so is ee [long a].

bai-bai= what else? bye-bye. pronounced pretty much the same too.

jigoku ni otosu [jee-go-ku nee oh-toh-soo] = like saying go to hell

moshi-moshi [moh-she moh-she] is hello when you're answering the phone.

 

lol, I think "moshi moshi" is a really interesting way to say hello. Since the fact that they only use it on the phone is some what puzzling. My friends have always bothered me about that after hearing me talk to my mom on the phone. Asking why it would be nessecary to have such a word.

 

You could say oya oya for o dear...

And you could definitely get away with saying bai bai or hello in ordinary face-to-face conversations... it probably sounds even more natural...

 

i had thought that moshi moshi wasn't just for the phone. I was taught that it was mostly for the phone but was also a "hey i'm trying to get your attention"/"Hey listen to me!" kinda thing.

 

I actually know the reason they say moshi-moshi on the phone. It dates back to all the kitsune legends that are out there. When greeting someone (say the person was outside the door, or on the other end of the phone) you would say moshi moshi. If the person on the other side said it as well you knew they were human as kitsune are unable to make that sound.

Yay for random useless knowledge!

Anyway, it's really hard to swear in Japanese. You can be very blunt and direct which can be quite offensive, but when it comes to actually swear words, the worst ones I know translate to something along the lines of "crap" or "darn it!" nothing stronger.

Seriously, they've got things like "shimatta" and "kuso" in Pokemon, which is very much a children's program. The thing is, many subtitling companites (fansub or otherwise) have a penchant for adding swear words, and then not translating the words that could be translated that way. Sometimes it's understandable as the character, were they talking in English, would speak that way. Many times, however (particularly with fansubs) there isn't really any reason for the characters to be using language like that.

~Shadrach Anki

 

Uso is also a swear word which is used...especially in ranma i've heard it said.
Baka is probably the most used word to insult people. Depending on how you say it, it can mean something very bad to something mild.

 

Actually...

Uso = Lie (as in an untruth)
Baka = Idiot, jerk, etc...

-UK
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just a quicky

 

Yet, baka is more commonly used. Aho might be used when stringing up insults ^^

 

Actually... according to a friend of mine from Kagoshima, Aho is more friendly, as in you'd use it like you would when calling a friend 'idiot'. It's a dialect thing anyways. Used most often in Kansai-ben. It may be used, and have different connotations, in other dialects.

-UK

 

What's the difference in pronunciation between -chan and -san?
Someone told me that they are both pronounced the same, as in S-AN, rather than CH-AN, but i don't know whether this is right or not.

 

thankyou!

 

How would you say "young" and "damnit" (the last one would be very useful). I heard there's like 15 ways to say one english word in Japanese, so if yah don't mind, could I a few? Laterz