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Brian Patrick Myers
Posted on Friday, July 18, 2003 - 06:51 pm:   

I would like to know what the following phrase is in Japanese.
"I don't know what this says".
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Mr. Anonymous
Posted on Friday, July 18, 2003 - 09:00 pm:   

do you mean reading?

anyway, "i can't read this"
これは読めません。 (kore ha/wa yomemasen)

"i don't know what it means (says)"
意味が良く分かりません
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Brian Patrick Myers
Posted on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:27 am:   

about the phrase you translated, I cannot understand the first two kanji used on the translation of "I don't know what this means(says) could you please translate those two kanji into hiragana and then english for me please?
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Brian Patrick Myers
Posted on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:41 am:   

also, and thank you for such a speedy response, that phrase is very important to me as there are as you can tell, kanji that catch me off guard and that I don't know how to read unless someone is kind and writes hiragana next to it or above it. thank you :-)
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Matjlav
Posted on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:22 pm:   

The hirigana for those first two kanji:

imi

"Imi." The meaning for them is, well, "meaning." hehe.

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