literary fragment

Japanese translation: 彼女に「妊娠したかもしれない、どうしよう？」って言われちゃってさ、「かもしれないって、分からないの？

15:23 Mar 26, 2002

English to Japanese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary

English term or phrase: literary fragment

"- she痴 sitting there telling me, I think I知 pregnant, what are we gonna do, I say: what do you mean, I think, do you know or don稚 you? Says she, I知 not sure myself -"
In a narration, one young man describes his experience with a young woman. Please contact me for more context. This would be an immense help. Thanks - Henning

Henning Bochert (X) KudoZ activity Questions: 84 (1 open) (6 without valid answers) Answers: 59 Germany
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Japanese translation:彼女に「妊娠したかもしれない、どうしよう？」って言われちゃってさ、「かもしれないって、分からないの？

Explanation:
The writing style is quite casual, and I'm assuming the guy is talking to a good friend about his problems, therefore, my translation is in casual Japanese.

I'm leaving out the "sitting there" intentionally, because I don't think it bears enough meaning to be translated directly. I think is more of a nuance issue. He probably wanted to express how flabbergasted he was, and I included that in "(言われ)ちゃって".

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Note added at 2002-03-26 23:13:42 (GMT) Post-grading
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I¥'m sorry, it seems my translation was cut off. The entire translation was this:

彼女に「妊娠したかもしれない、どうしよう？」って言われちゃってさ、「かもしれないって、分からないの？」って言ったら、「確かではないけど」と口ごもってた。

¥"言われちゃう¥"=¥"言われてしまう¥"
It adds the nuance that something undesirable happened.

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tmmmrt
United States
Local time: 06:43

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Thanks for taking the time to help me. Your explanation was helpful, although I would have liked to know what the addition literally means you inserted.
Thanks -
Henning Bochert
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4 +3

Setting: Young man, talking to his good friend

Mike Sekine

4 +2

彼女に「妊娠したかもしれない、どうしよう？」って言われちゃってさ、「かもしれないって、分からないの？

tmmmrt

Discussion entries: 5

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2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

Setting: Young man, talking to his good friend

Explanation:
・・で、彼女は座って「私、妊娠してると思う。どうしよう？」と俺に言ったんだ。「妊娠したと『思う』？はっきりとわかってるの？」と俺が問いただしたら彼女は「私もわからないの・・」とつぶやくだけだった。

of course, there are million other ways to write this. I have to read the story a bit to fine-tune the tone of conversation and stuff, but I'm sure you can fiddle with that a bit on your own.

my bed time stories

Mike Sekine
Japan
Local time: 22:43
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in pair: 80

6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

彼女に「妊娠したかもしれない、どうしよう？」って言われちゃってさ、「かもしれないって、分からないの？

tmmmrt
United States
Local time: 06:43
PRO pts in pair: 17

Grading comment

Thanks for taking the time to help me. Your explanation was helpful, although I would have liked to know what the addition literally means you inserted.
Thanks -
Henning Bochert
[email protected]

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