► 副助詞
等 [(1)など] [liter] meaning: and so on rank: 1
☆ この週末は家の掃除等をした ⇨ This weekend I cleaned up my house among other things
☆ 彼は頭が痛い等と言って仕事をしない ⇨ He doesn’t work saying he has a headache or whatever
等 [(1)など] [liter] meaning: example rank: 1
☆ バロック音楽の作曲家の代表としてバッハ、ヘンデル等が挙げられる ⇨ The key composers of Baroque music include Bach, Handel and so on
等 [(1)など] [liter] meaning: dismissal rank: 2
☆ お前の助けなど必要無い ⇨ I don’t need your help
☆ そんな事などどうでもいい ⇨ I can’t care less about such things
☆ 全てを三日で完了する事など到底不可能だ ⇨ It is absolutely impossible to complete everything in 3 days
☆ 心配などしていない ⇨ I’m not worried at all
等 [(1)など] [liter] meaning: how about rank: 2
☆ ワイン等如何でしょう？ ⇨ Would you like something like wine? How about some wine?
► 接尾辞
等 [ら] [coll] meaning: plural rank: 2
☆ あいつ等何やってんだ？ ⇨ What the hell are they doing? (☛ Human plural suffix)
☆ 我等は地球の住民だ ⇨ We are inhabitants of Earth (☛ Human plural suffix)
等 [(1)とう] meaning: position rank: 3
☆ 彼は競走で一等になった ⇨ He finished first in the race
☆ 私はくじで三等に当たった ⇨ I won the third prize in the raffle (☛ Prizes are always 等)
More examples:
- 彼等は運動靴を製造している ⇨ They are producing, manufacturing, athletic shoes
- 彼等が負けた事それ自体はそれ程驚きでないが、敵に完全に圧倒されたことは驚きだった ⇨ Their losing itself was not that big a surprise, but the way they were completely dominated by the opponent was
- 彼等は先ずは応急策を考えだした ⇨ They came up with an emergency countermeasure
- 彼等は敵に真っ向から勝負に挑んだ ⇨ He attacked the enemy head on
- 彼等はお互いに褒め合った ⇨ They praised each other
- 彼等は市に請願書を提出した ⇨ They submitted an official request to the city (government)
- 彼等の音楽はいい線行っている ⇨ Their music is pretty good
- 彼等は防戦一方だった ⇨ They were totally on the defensive
- 彼等は橋の建設工事を落札した ⇨ They won the bid for the construction of a new bridge
- 彼等は相手を完全に甘く見ていた ⇨ They were completely underestimating their opponent
- 彼等は広間を二つに区切った ⇨ They partitioned the hall into two
- 彼等はその計画に多くの資金を投入した ⇨ They injected a lot of funds into the project
- 彼等は慎ましく暮らしている ⇨ They are living modestly
- 彼等には危機管理能力が全く無い ⇨ They have zero ability for disaster management
- 彼等に総攻撃されたら我々は一溜りも無い ⇨ If they do a full-scale attack on us, we will be crushed. We won’t stand a chance