Thread: Japanese Grammar Question

Hi, I am trying to teach myself Japanese using various webites, and there is one question I have in regards to Kanji. When the Kanji is like below:



What does it mean? Does it have different meanings or different accents? Or what? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

The pronunciation is on the right.

you need bable fish!!

Originally Posted by cronik

The pronunciation is on the right.

Really? Ok thats good then.

It says, Yuu. Look that up.

hmm. thats a trick one. Its a katakana "ma" over the kanji for man.

I vaguely remember Yuu being hot water, but I could be very very wrong. This is purely speculation.

Its ok, I just put some random one. I just want to know what it means when it has the extra characters on the side (either to the right, top or bottom I have seen. I am trying to teach myself Japanese, so I can attempt to translate things, but I want to make sure I am not barking up the wrong tree and seriously screw things up.

i didn't want to start a new thread for something somewhat similar.

i was wondering if any of you speak french and could tell me what "d'spoir" means? i've tried translators but i guess it may be slang or something.

I took a bit of french in high school, but try spoir by itself. D' is de most likely which mean of. Let me check it out a bit.

lol. The word spoir doesn't exist. "Désespoir" means desperation/despair; unless he meant "d'espoir" which mean "of hope". I am assuming the word is désespoir because it's sounds the same but if you give me the sentance I could translate it for you.