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I wrote the first line of my birthday card, does it make sense? Reminder that I am still super super super beginner, just trying to use sentence structure and vocab words the best.
お誕生日おめでとう。 そんなに私たち話さないのに、にとって、最高さいこうな1日にちになりますように.
(Happy Birthday. Even though we do not talk much, I still hope you have a happy day.)
I’m aware I used “best day ever” instead of happy day, but does it still make sense? Thank you!
I read this and I was wondering:
> 地面から手が伸びて引き込まれるとか？
Is this hand coming out of the ground a “thing” in Japanese or is the author making something up? Like is this a common image?
I was wondering about this:
> 僕らからすると大きいけど、モンスターとして小型に分類されるね
Particularly the first part, 僕らからすると大きいけど makes no sense to me. “If we do it from us, it’s big but, this monster is classified as a small type”
I’m sure I misunderstood though. I guess I expect すると to be some kind of conditional thing, but I can’t see how that applies here.
For context, some small cats are going on a quest to fight some monster. The monster isn’t that big, but compared to the cats, it’s bigger than them.
[There are 2 sentences which are hard for my JP level , hope someone can explain their meanings to me .](https://cdn.hinative.com/attached_images/1071803/6cd66d6e73bfb5e856d1f54c4b4ec79010d69458/large.png?1668629470)
**Context: The King is talking with his royal retainers/ officials, after the Prince has been imprisoned due to the fact that he had failed to assassinate the King. Now the King is living inside a cat’s body (because 1 Royal Knight saved him from the Prince’s assassination ,by transfers the King’s soul into a cat )**
Retainer 1「あの、王子は大丈夫なんでしょうか」
King (now he’s a cat)「そのような心配は無用だ。もはや、王子でもなんでもない」
King「あんな奴のことより、お前達にはやることがあるだろう」
**King「緊張感をもって毅然と事にあたれ！」 (>> this I don’t understand much, I can only guess : “Keep a serious attitude and determination while working !” ? )**
Retainer 1「は、はい……」
**Retainer 2「（姿のせいでイマイチ緊張感が……）」(>>also this because the author has omitted a part of this sentence with “….” , my guess : “It’s due to his appearance, we can’t quite focus…” )**