Zuibun nagaku ikasarete... «A Tale for the Time Being»
no_land_man30 апреля 2015Zuibun nagaku ikasarete itadaite orimasu ne—"I have been alive for a very long time, haven't I?" Totally impossible to translate, but the nuance is something like: "I have been caused to live by the deep conditions of the universe to which I am humbly and deeply grateful." P. Arai calls it the "gratitude tense," and says the beauty of this grammatical construction is that "there is no finger pointing to a source." She also says, "It is impossible to feel angry when using this tense."
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