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@Pfirsichbaeumchen, would this match "Any boy who did that would be sneered at" or perhaps "laughed at"?
Yes, it would. “laughed at” would match very well. The Japanese uses a very basic wording. Also it just says “child”, so it could be either a boy or a girl. Literally it means, “Any child who did a thing/something like that would (certainly) be laughed at.” Differently: “People would laugh at any child who did something like that.”
The word order is rather fixed in Japanese. For example, what we would call a subordinate clause (if's and who's) is always first. You can change that word order in a translation if it sounds better.
Thanks! Japanese grammar seems to work very differently from English (and German).
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Any boy who should do that would be sneered.
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People would laugh at any child who did something like that.
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