Tuesday, June 05, 2007
JLPT3: にする (II)
| 日本語： | [い adjective] くする |
| 日本語： | [な adjective] にする |
| 日本語： | [noun] にする |
| English: | Change into..., make... |
Recently we covered one use of にする and found that it could be used to mean to decide upon or choose some object. Today we'll look at another meaning: to change something into or to make something . In essence it is similar to になる, but whereas になる indicates a natural change in state, にする indicates that the change is brought about by some external entity.
Usage is pretty straight-forward: with い adjectives, drop the い; with な adjectives, drop な. With nouns, simply add にする to the noun.
| English: | His mood was pretty bad so I told some jokes. In short, that made him happy. |
| Jenglish: | [his][mood][pretty][bad][because][jokes][told]. [In short] [that] [happy + made] |
| 日本語： | 彼の機嫌はかなり悪いですので、冗談を言ったんだ。つまり、そのは嬉しくした。 |
| English: | The film plot was not very good, but because Koyuki starred, somehow it made it interesting :-) |
| Jenglish: | [film plot][good + not very][but][koyuki][starred][somehow][interesting + made] |
| 日本語： | 映画の筋はあまり良くないけど、小雪さんを主演したから、なんとなく面白くした(^o^) |
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Example 1:
Here's a book title found here.
| 日本語： | シカクいアタマをマルくする。 |
| Jenglish: | [square] [head] [round + make] |
Well, on the face of it, all seems easy enough, however I suspect that this is some kind of idiomatic expression. My translation is Make square heads round, but I can only guess a to the meaning. Any ideas?
Example 2:
Here's another more translatable (can I say that??) from a technology blog.
| 日本語： | 注射針を不要にする新技術(下) |
| Jenglish: | [needle] [unnecessary + make] [new technology] |
Nice and simple one here and even the subjunctive clause didn't cause much confusion. My translation is New technology that makes needles unnecessary.
Example 3:
もう一つ例文・・・今回このサイトから取りました。
| 日本語： | Webアプリケーションのオフライン動作を可能にする「Google Gears」 |
| Jenglish: | [web application] [PM] [offline] [action] [OM] [possible + make] |
OK, so slightly more tricky due to the lack of particles, subject, topic etc... but I'm guessing Offline web application actions made possible: Google Gears.
またね・・・
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