And isn't it just the cutest video you've ever seen?
2007-03-18 02:10:11 · 6 answers · asked by Voight-Kampff 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
'Ookina ai' is 'big love'.... and 'motenasu' means to entertain, but also to make someone welcome... 'welcome me with big love'...
Whose video is this then?
2007-03-18 02:31:09 · answer #1 · answered by Buzzard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be Japanese Ooki na is an adjective means large... ai could be a hole. The rest doesn't really make much sense to me. I mean it can be divided up in various ways and none seem to be sensible. For example de mo is a common construction and leaves tenashite which I don't think means anything. shite is a word... it is actually a command to do... you would say it politely -shite kudasai.
But that leaves tena. Te means hand... it is more likely that you meant to say mote to hold ... but to hold a big hole? ha ha ha. I can not make sense of it. I think someone with a greater experience of Japanese may recognise in it something sensible. Not I. (Maybe the first person to answer that is very possible what it means. ai also means love and motenasu means to entertain motenashite is the command entertain me.) Gads! I learned something from answering.
2007-03-18 09:24:16 · answer #2 · answered by madchriscross 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ookina=big
ai=love
motenashite=welcome/service/ treat /entertain etc
so it's like Entertain/Welcome me with big love
It's so hard to translate Japanese-English, English-Japanes. They are too different and those languages have really different "ideas" and "feeling"
2007-03-18 10:19:13 · answer #3 · answered by ishida m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
madchris, you've completely mangled my native language.
ai is love not hole. and the rest of yoru theory is pure guesswork.
Ookina ai de motenashite = Entertain/Amuse me with your big love <3
2007-03-19 10:39:12 · answer #4 · answered by vanity 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Entertain me with a big love roughly translated.
2007-03-18 09:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by NyteShayde 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try going to Dictionary.com it will translate any language for you...
I hope this helps ~ Good Luck !!
2007-03-18 10:58:06 · answer #6 · answered by Kris 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋