You are my hero, Dad!

Japanese translation: 父ちゃん、かっこいー！

02:22 Mar 26, 2002

English to Japanese translations [Non-PRO]

English term or phrase: You are my hero, Dad!

By a five-year-old kid.
I do not think he knows many nice words that you know. Be a kid!

rya (X)

Japanese translation:父ちゃん、かっこいー！

Explanation:
it's a good thing my mental age is five.

Selected response from:

Mike Sekine
Japan
Local time: 03:27

Grading comment

It looks like this is the people's choice.
As 5-year-old kids, one of the criteria of saying a word "hero" may be depending on very simple feelings of パパが好き/嫌い. I learned a lot, thank you for your help everyone.
Oh, by the way, I finally understand that this tough looking Gladiator, no Hogan now, is a chocolate-covered sweet boy after all. I give him a solitary perfect 6.0 for artistic impression in his nice comment. Unfortunately, this seems not to be an official one, sorry.
Thanks again everyone, and you have a happy Easter! Randy

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Summary of answers provided

4 +5

父ちゃん、かっこいー！

Mike Sekine

4 +2

パパ、すごーい！ (パパは僕のヒーローだ！！

LEXICON KK

パパ、かっこいい

Mitsuko

父ちゃん、すごいなー！

Katalin Horváth McClure

父ちゃん、すごーい！

TokikoH

ぼく、パパの大ファンだよ。パパがいちばんかっこいいよ。大きくなったパパみたいになりたい・・・

mkj (X)

Answers

49 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

父ちゃん、かっこいー！

Explanation:
it's a good thing my mental age is five.

Mike Sekine
Japan
Local time: 03:27
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in pair: 80

Grading comment

54 mins confidence:

父ちゃん、すごいなー！

Explanation:
or, if the child is polite:
お父さん、すごいなー！

Katalin Horváth McClure
United States
Local time: 14:27
Native speaker of:

Hungarian
PRO pts in pair: 163

3 hrs confidence:

父ちゃん、すごーい！

Explanation:
more impolite,"父ちゃん、すげー！" (kid should be boy).
in general,"お父さん、すごーい！" is acceptable.

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Note added at 2002-03-26 06:03:51 (GMT)
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I think ¥"かっこいい¥"　is good translation for ¥'hero¥', though.

TokikoH
Japan
Local time: 03:27

13 hrs confidence:

パパ、かっこいい

Explanation:
I think "パパ (or お父さん)" is more commonly used than 父ちゃん.

Mitsuko
Local time: 03:27
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in pair: 50

13 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

パパ、すごーい！ (パパは僕のヒーローだ！！

Explanation:

Just another suggestion.
This answer works better for both genders (boyz and girlz).
This is very subjective, but I find 父ちゃん to be more of a term used by boys IMHO. 5 year old girls probably call their dad パパ more often these days than 父ちゃん. 父さん is fine, but it may be too polite for a 5 year old girl to call their own dad. It might be more appropriate for a 10 year old. Plus, パパ is a cuter and more attached word than the stiff "father" equavalent 父さん anyway.
=)

All this is inconsequential to a point since you mentioned the kid is a "HE." 父ちゃん is fine for 5 year old boy.

In terms of trying to convey "You are my hero"... hmmmmm. かっこいー and すごーい don't exactly mean that, but for a 5 year old's vocab, i think either is fine.

かっこいー would literally mean "Dad, you're so coooooool!"
すごーい　would literally mean "Dad, you're amazing!"

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Note added at 2002-03-26 15:45:05 (GMT)
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パパは僕のヒーローだよ！！　might work for a 5 year old boy.

LEXICON KK
Local time: 03:27
Native speaker of:

English,

Japanese
PRO pts in pair: 12

16 hrs confidence:

ぼく、パパの大ファンだよ。パパがいちばんかっこいいよ。大きくなったパパみたいになりたい・・・

Explanation:
Different expressions for different situations.
1) The boy admires his dad over one incident; dad saved the boy's life パパは、いのちのおんじん。He would know this expression from watching all the monster vs. superhero shows.

2) Over one incident; dad hit a home-run at a parent-kid baseball game　パパがいちばんかっこいいよ。ぼく、パパの大ファン。After all, you probably have only one or two heroes, right?

3) After watching his dad over a long　period of time, he realizes he admires his dad the most, more than he does Spiderman or Superman.　大きくなったらパパみたいになりたい。大すきだよ、パパ。パパは、ぼくのいちばんすきな人。パパは、えらい人だね。パパがいちばんかっこいいよ。

You might want to ask the 5-year-old what he really meant. As for the Japanese word for "dad", it all depends on how this particular boy calls his dad. It could be おとうさん、とうちゃん、or パパ, and it doesn't really matter in this case what the English says. What a lucky dad!

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Note added at 2002-03-26 23:37:32 (GMT)
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Can¥'t wait till he gets old enough to have a bigger vocabulary. When older, he would say 僕の尊敬する人物 or ヒーロー.

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Note added at 2002-03-27 06:07:14 (GMT)
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I know now why it¥'s so difficult to come up with the on-the-target Japanese word for HERO--- that¥'s because it usually means a public heroic figure and not a personal hero like your own dad when you say ヒーロー in Japanese. Speaker¥'s age is not the issue here but the culture difference is! Example: あの試合のヒーローはXXX選手だ。

mkj (X)
United States
Local time: 11:27
PRO pts in pair: 217

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