Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (October 08, 2022)

4 comments

1. I was wondering about this:

   > 昔話はこれぐらいにするとしよう。お前たちは早く寝ろ

   For context, the speaker has told some kids about a tragic thing which happened to them a long time ago.

   I’m having a bit of trouble understanding this.　　お前たちは早く寝ろ I think is just him telling the kids to go to bed.

   Maybe 昔話はこれぐらいにするとしよう means “I told you that story enough, with that, let’s go (do something else).” But IDK if that is right.

2. I have yet another question I hope it is ok. I was wondering about this:

   > いい感じで海は荒れてるじゃないか。よし、このまま寝かせといてくれ。

   I think it means “The sea is nice and stormy isn’t it? Let me sleep like this.”

   But I don’t really get what the と particle (if that’s what it is?) is doing in the second sentence.

   EDIT: For some context, the speaker is on a ship. They just woke up and it is stormy outside, but in the story I think they want it to be a storm. They are eating breakfast.

3. What’s the verb in japanese (on kanji and hiragana please) for pulling or drawing in the gacha sense?

4. hello!

   i’m going through genki 1 and one of its example sentences say this: この時計は　いくらですか。 “this watch, how much?”. i’m wondering if using 何 before いくら becomes invalid or produces an unintended effect. thanks in advance