Thursday, February 3, 2011

Fuwa ふわ (Part 2)


ふわは、雪から何かを作ったり取り出したりすることができると言われていますがくわしいことは、まだ分わかっていません。







I found the second sentence a little bit tricky, but I am going to try my best.

ふわ
ふわ - fuwa is the name of this lovely snow creature
は - it is a particle, right here it can mean "is"

雪から何かを作ったり取り出したりすることができると言われていますがくわしいことはまだ分わかっていません
雪 - snow
から - from
何か - something
/ anything
たり, when combined with the te form of a verb, means that the action is being done within the same period of time with another action, it doesn't meant the actions are done simultaneously. For example: 食べたり、本を読んだり。This means eating and reading, both done within a period of time, but does not mean eating while reading.
作る- make
取りだす - take out
ことができる - means the action is possible, or can be done

So what does
雪から何か作ったり取り出したりすることができる means? I am thinking it means "it is something that can be made and taken from snow "

と言われています - this means it is said, in this case, we don't know who said it.
くわしいこと - this means the details
まだ - still
分わかっていません - this part I also don't understand... わかっていません means not understand, but what about the 分? What does it do here?

Anyhow, the meaning of the whole sentence should be - it is said that fuwa is something that can be made and taken from snow, but the details is still not understood.




Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Fuwa ふわ (Part 1)


Name: ふわ (fuwa)
Type: Snowman?
Description from Shinada:
だんだんと肌寒くなってくる季節、フモフモさん ふわが、再び出現するようです。ふわは、雪から何かを作ったり取り出したりすることができると言われていますがくわしいことは、まだ分わかっていません。どこに出現するか、よく分かりませんが、もし見かけたら、声をかけてあげてください。

"だんだんと肌寒くなってくる季節 "

だんだん means gradually
肌寒い (hadasamui) means unpleasantly cold or chilly, and 肌寒くなってくる means becoming chilly
季節
(kisetsu) means season

So the whole sentence means something like "the season that gradually becomes cold"


"フモフモさん ふわが"

The second part is pretty straight forward. フモフモさん ふわが - it means "the fumofumo san fuwa is"


"
再び出現するようです"

再び (futatabi) - again
出現する (sutsugensuru) - appear
ようです - seems like

Putting all that together means that "seems to appear again".

"だんだんと肌寒くなってくる季節、フモフモさん ふわが、再び出現するようです。"
The whole thing put together is, "The season that gradually becomes cold, the fumofumo san fuwa seems to be appearing again."