I’m doing a project where I need a Japanese translation for the word “quaint”. Since it is not a common word I doubt I would get an accurate translation online, so would anyone be able to provide a translation? Thank you in advance!
It depends on the context, and I am not a native speaker, but you might consider something like 庶民的な. It has a “folksy” vibe to it, but also kinda means “popular with the working class” or “blue-collar.”
Following to see what native speakers say 🙂
my suggestion is to look up the English word in Japanese, and see what / how it’s explained that way, plus whatever the equivalent in Japanese is. For example:
quaint 意味
quaint とは
quaint 日本語
As in old fashioned? You can just say old fashioned.
If it’s cute and old in a fairytale-like way, you could use メルヘン
Finding specific words with exactly the same nuance can be impossible between dialects. I’m a native speaker of American English and can’t even find a word for “twee” from British.
Trying to do the same thing between unrelated languages is a fool’s errand.
“いい感じで奇妙なsomething” is what an older Japanese gentlemen and myself came to the conclusion of for this word about 5 years ago or so
He wanted to the the Japanese meaning for it and researched for weeks until he eventually settled on this
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It depends on the context, and I am not a native speaker, but you might consider something like 庶民的な. It has a “folksy” vibe to it, but also kinda means “popular with the working class” or “blue-collar.”
Following to see what native speakers say 🙂
my suggestion is to look up the English word in Japanese, and see what / how it’s explained that way, plus whatever the equivalent in Japanese is. For example:
quaint 意味
quaint とは
quaint 日本語
As in old fashioned? You can just say old fashioned.
If it’s cute and old in a fairytale-like way, you could use メルヘン
Finding specific words with exactly the same nuance can be impossible between dialects. I’m a native speaker of American English and can’t even find a word for “twee” from British.
Trying to do the same thing between unrelated languages is a fool’s errand.
“いい感じで奇妙なsomething” is what an older Japanese gentlemen and myself came to the conclusion of for this word about 5 years ago or so
He wanted to the the Japanese meaning for it and researched for weeks until he eventually settled on this