I saw two kids playing in the street

日本語 translation: 二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのを見た。

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英語の用語またはフレーズ	I saw two kids playing in the street
日本語訳	二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのを見た。
入力者	Will Matter

19:32 Dec 13, 2008

英語から日本語への翻訳 [PRO]
Art/Literary - 言語学

英語の用語またはフレーズ I saw two kids playing in the street

A colleague and I are having a minor disagreement about the best way to translate this exact phrase so I'd like to see what everyone else has to say. Thanks, in advance, for your help.

Will Matter KudoZ活動状況質問 32 (1件オープン) (1 closed without grading) 回答： 1426 米国
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二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのを見た。

説明：
In some situation it may also be translated as「二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのが見えた」, but this sounds less pleasant due to the repetition of "ga".

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HappySmile
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二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのを見た。

HappySmile

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二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのが目に入った。

Shimac

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子供が二人通りで遊んでいた

Yuki Okada

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見た、見えた、or no verb, depending on the focus of the sentence

Mika Jarmusz

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i saw two kids playing in the street

二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのを見た。

説明：
In some situation it may also be translated as「二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのが見えた」, but this sounds less pleasant due to the repetition of "ga".

HappySmile
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母国語：日本語
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i saw two kids playing in the street 二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのが目に入った。

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二人の子供が通りで遊んでいるのが目に入った。

Shimac
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Local time: 00:53
母国語：日本語

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ピアによる賛成(ネット数)： +3

i saw two kids playing in the street 子供が二人通りで遊んでいた

説明：
I wonder what kind of disagreement you have with your colleague. Without that piece of information, and generally speaking, what I might say about this is that saying "I saw ..." is an English way of putting it, and we tend not say it in Japanese, unless it is important to say that it was I who saw the two kids or that I saw them as opposed to I heard them. With this in mind, I would probably translate it without referring to "I" and "saw." Of course, you should be able to fine tune the translation with more context.

Yuki Okada
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Local time: 08:53
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i saw two kids playing in the street 見た、見えた、or no verb, depending on the focus of the sentence

説明：
It depends on what the source sentence is trying to convey.
There are a variety of ways to translate this single sentence into Japanese, and they are NOT all identical, although nuances overlap. We use various permutations in Japanese, often haphazardly and sometimes interchangeably, but as a writer (or, as a translator who writes Japanese sentences) it's good to pay attention to the differences. The list below is just off the cuff, and my notes may very well be subjective.

verb=見えた (The kids, i.e., what I saw, are the primary focus of the sentence.)
1.子供が二人、道で遊んでいるのが見えた。(emphasis evenly distributed on "two kids" "playing on the street")
2.子供が二人、道で遊ぶのが見えた。(less emphasis on "playing," more on "two kids" than the 1. above.)
3.二人の子供が道で遊んでいるのが見えた。(emphasis on the whole "scene" of what I was seeing, i.e., kids playing.)
4.二人の子供が道で遊ぶのが見えた。(more emphasis on "two kids" than the 3. above.)
5.道で遊んでいる二人の子供が見えた。(more emphasis on "two kids" and the fact that I was seeing them.)
6.道で遊んでいる子供が二人見えた。(more emphasis on "two" and the fact that I was seeing them.)
7.道で遊ぶ二人の子供が見えた。(more emphasis on "two kids" as the object of what I was seeing.)

#6 and #7 seems to be more factual as statements, the rest being more descriptive.

verb=見た (The person doing the "seeing" is the primary focus of the sentence.)
子供が二人、道で遊んでいるのを見た。
道で遊ぶ二人の子供を見た。etc.

Mika Jarmusz
Local time: 08:53
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母国語：日本語

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