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For me/for you
How to translate into japanese "for me/for you".
For example :
For me that change nothing but for you it's a shame.
Sep 20, 2010 8:06 PM
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For that sentence the proposition "for" may be best translated into Japanese as "niwa" or "ni totte wa"
for me: watashi niwa (わたしには), watashi ni totte wa (わたしにとっては)
for you: anata niwa (あなたには), anata ni totte wa (あなたにとっては)
For me that changes nothing but for you it's a shame.
watashi niwa nandemo nai koto dakeredo anata ni totte wa zannen na koto desu.
Of course, the English proposition "for" has a huge variety of usages so Japanese translation also varies to reflect such differences. Here I am not going to explain further and I'd rather leave the issue to a dictionary, but please keep in mind that "niwa" and "ni totte wa" are not the only translation for the word "for".
September 21, 2010
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