► 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:
- 彼等に再三問い合わせたが何の返答も無い ⇨ I have inquired to them repeatedly but there has been no response
- 彼等は捕虜を皆殺しにした ⇨ They killed all of the POW’s
- 彼等は鉄壁の守りで知られる ⇨ They are known for extremely secure, robust, defense
- 彼等は一年の交際の後結婚した ⇨ They married after one year of dating
- 彼等は儲けを分け合った ⇨ They shared, divided evenly, the profit
- 彼等は限られた予算を切り盛りしている ⇨ They’re managing, operating within, a limited budget
- 彼等は外国製品を国内市場から排除しようとしている ⇨ They’re trying to exclude foreign products from the domestic market
- 彼等は敵を迎撃した ⇨ They returned fire to the attacking enemy
- 彼等は痛い敗戦を喫した ⇨ They suffered a painful loss
- 彼等は取った魚を港で即売する ⇨ They sell the fish they caught immediately at the port
- 彼等は大国の間に挟まれて身動きが取れない ⇨ They are caught between the powerful countries and can’t make any move
- 彼等が成功したのは不思議でも何でもない ⇨ It is not strange at all that they succeeded
- 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)
- 彼等は新しい生産方式を採り入れた ⇨ They adopted a new production method
- 彼等は四強まで勝ち残った ⇨ They won and joined the final four