Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [でした]

"Short tempered as ever." He said while dodging Reika's fist.

"Going to the little girl's room" is an euphemistic expression for "going to the toilet."

"Haruki, you ask for a seat at the front as well." "What's wrong, why the look of blatant dislike?"

The "predicate" is that part that shows the action in the sentence. In Japanese it would be the part that ends in "da", "suru", etc.

The "subject" is the person or object to carry out the action in the sentence. Transformed to Japanese it would be the part that end in "wa" or "ga".

"Car" is a synonym of "automobile".

"It's the age of BL!" "bee elu?" "Yup, Boy's Love. Books and such dealing with romance between boys."

"Don't look alike do you?" "That's because we're fraternal twins."

"You don't look like each other." "That's because we're fraternal twins."

I think to clearly distinguish opinion from fact is important.

"It's right after yesterday so ... that is ... do your genitals hurt or ...?" "It still smarts a little but..."

"This is the police. Would you mind coming down to the station?" "W-why?" "You can't think it's not a crime to go shooting guns off in the middle of town?!"

"Mmmmn ... maybe I'll have a hair of the dog." "Whoa, hold up a mo! Here, I cooked roast fish for this morning. You ought to be able to eat this OK."

"Look! Thanks to you I'm getting dumped all the time." "Oh? Isn't it just because of your everyday behaviour?"

"Well, that is, it's not something I can boast of," in fact it's not something I can talk unashamedly about in public.

"Well he looks odd on the surface ... but he's even odder on the inside." "You're really not helping me there."

"Did you possibly not notice until just now?" "Er, well ... it was just so beyond my imagination that ..."

"How did it go?" "They said it was acute appendicitis."

"I was just admiring your roses. They're absolutely gorgeous." "Oh, I'm flattered. Thank you."

"Say, shall we try a questionnaire with the boarding students?" "Ah! One of those things they call 'marketing research'."