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Translation - Japanese-Brazilian Portuguese - domo ogenki dessu ka

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Title
domo ogenki dessu ka
Text
Submitted by juliana2931
Source language: Japanese

domo ogenki dessu ka

Title
Oi, como você está?
Translation
Brazilian Portuguese

Translated by Lfernando
Target language: Brazilian Portuguese

Oi, como você está?
Remarks about the translation
Domo: "Oi" ou "Agradecido"
Ogenki desu ka: "Como você está?"
Last validated or edited by Angelus - 30 December 2007 02:34





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28 December 2007 03:14

Angelus
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Experts in Japanese, could you help us out here!?

Thanks in advance!!

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29 December 2007 04:03

IanMegill2
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Hi Angelus,

I suppose you could translate this as:
Hi, how are you?
Literally:
"Very are you well?"
(This "very" is used as an informal greeting in Japanese)


But the Japanese original is strange, and almost certainly written by someone who was not Japanese:
1: "dessu" should be "desu"
2: there should be a comma or something between "domo" and "ogenki"
3: and -- not so imporant to us Westerners, but quite important here in Japan -- there is a confusion of politeness levels: the informal "domo" is together with the formal "ogenki desu ka." They would usually not be used together in the same sentence (In French it would be sort of like using "tu" and "vous" in the same sentence, to the same person...?)

30 December 2007 02:35

Angelus
Number of messages: 1227
Thanks for your help Ian!