Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [とります]

H-Hey! What're you up to!!

To take good pictures there are some knacks to learn and a little trick.

Er, well, I'd like to take a vote. Would people in favour of Mr Ogawa's proposition please raise their hands.

Eh? Have we run out of toner? Oh well, sorry, but can you go the staff-room and get some, Katou?

The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.

From children to the elderly, sensible exercise has a good effect on the body.

In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap.

A light lunch at MacD's, coffee at Starbucks, then a few drinks with shabu-shabu - that's the way it went.

With verbs there are intransitive verbs that don't take an object, and transitive verbs that do take an object.

A complete intransitive verb takes neither complement nor object.

We want you to take command of this unified force.

"The old lady of this shop is very unsociable but ..." "Taiki, I can hear you!" "Ack!"

"Let's see, you're ... er, um ... M-" "You're wrong from the first letter!!"

Oh no! I'm late again!! I'm going to get the nickname 'King of Late arrival'.

I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.

Not wanting to boast but I've never got better than a 3 on my report card for home economics. Out of 10 that is.

I'm a thief, I'll go back when I've taken the stuff. Report me and I'll stab you.

Their shoulders are strong no matter what stance they are in so they can throw back to the pitcher well.

The casting came cleanly out of its mold.

I'd just be able to give up better than if you were taken by some other woman.