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[lnhammer]

Suzumushi mo
kokoro mo kimi de
nakareta na

—18 October 2009

Unpoetic, probably unidiomatic, and no doubt ungrammatical, but yes, a haiku I wrote in Japanese. Assuming I knew what I was doing, a rough translation would be something like "Like the bell cricket / (my) heart too because of you / could chirp/sing/cry" -- "my" being unstated but I think would be understood. The intended meaning is chirp/sing, but without kanji, it could also be read as cry as in weep.

Corrections appreciated.

ETA verb fix.

---L.

Comments

[lnhammer]

Eh, I see where I went wrong: I was conjugating nakareru as a consonant stem ending in -ru instead of a vowel stem. So I was going for nakareta.

According to The Handbook of Japanese Verbs by Taeko Kamiya section 3.24 (p.134) (as well as other authors), the passive form is also used as a potential -- "is able to cry/chirp". I've no idea how idiomatic this is, though, compared to the koto ga dekiru construction.

---L.

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[lnhammer]

Eh -- meant to make that, "was able to cry/chirp" in the past tense.

Re: Consider this a comment edit

[ex_asakiyume313]

LOL, I was looking around for the edit button up in above, for one of my comments, and then remembered, oh yeah, that's a feature of an LJ paid account... not a Dreamwidth free account...

[ex_asakiyume313]

Oh yes, you're right--that's another thing it can mean. And it's very idiomatic--I think it's easily as common as koto ga dekiru.