► 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:
- 彼等の製品は私達の製品に酷似している ⇨ Their product suspiciously similar to our product
- 彼等は人生の勝ち組だ (かちぐみ) ⇨ They are winners in life
- 彼等は娘を慶子と命名した ⇨ They named their daughter Keiko
- 彼等は敵船を撃沈した ⇨ They sunk an enemy ship
- 彼等は東欧に販売拠点を設置した ⇨ They have set up some sales bases, hubs, in eastern Europe
- 彼等は子供が出来ない ⇨ They cannot have children
- 彼等は酒を傾けて夜遅くまで話し込んだ ⇨ They talked deep into the night, tilting sake bottles (to pour into cups)
- もう彼等の行く手を阻む者はいない ⇨ There are nobody left to block their path. Nobody is going to stop them
- 彼等は新しい工作機械を試運転した ⇨ They test-ran the new machine tool
- 彼等は混戦から抜け出た ⇨ They’ve come out of the dead heat (on top)
- 彼等は似た者同士で結婚した ⇨ They are like-minded and got married
- 彼等は食べ物を自給自足している ⇨ They are self-sufficient with food
- ボートのエンジンが故障して彼等は三日間漂流した ⇨ They drifted for 3 days when the engine of the boat had broken
- 高等教育 ⇨ Higher education
- 彼等は前半に二点を入れた ⇨ They scored two goals in the first half