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It's froze hard last night.
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It's froze hard last night.

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この部屋はひどく寒い。
この 部屋[へや] は ひどく 寒い[さむい] 。

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  1. Vortarulo
    Nov 4th 2011, 14:28
    This sentence doesn't look correct to me...
  2. Dejo
    Nov 4th 2011, 14:37
    It's totally wrong and doesn't make sense. Someone will have to check the Japanese. When I put it through the google translator it comes up "The room got cold".
  3. Koninda
    Nov 4th 2011, 14:56
    I'd argue that the English is partially wrong (one extra letter and punctuation mark), and points toward an intended meaning: "It froze hard last night". "It" refers to the weather, and "froze hard" means that the temperature dropped significantly below the freezing point of water, such that small puddles of water will be frozen into hard pools of ice, and sensitive plants will die.

    While I think I get the meaning, I am used to a more passive way of expressing it: "We had a hard freeze last night." I don't know that I've ever heard the concept expressed in the way the current sentence does. It's certainly worth checking the Japanese, as Dejo suggests.
  4. Hans07
    Nov 4th 2011, 15:01
    Kono heya wa hidoku samui
    according to my japanese dictionary means
    this room (is) cruelly, harshly cold
  5. Hans07
    Nov 4th 2011, 15:04
    So in the japanese sentence there is
    - no mention of last night
    - mention of the room
  6. Koninda
    Nov 4th 2011, 15:15
    So the English sentence, in addition to it's structural flaw, has a meaning which appears to have little in common with the Japanese. How can we correct this problem.
  7. Vortarulo
    Nov 4th 2011, 15:30
    Well, we'll wait until someone can confirm the (seemingly correct) interpretation of Hans and translate the sentence into good English. Maybe "This room is harshly cold."
    Anyone who thinks he got the meaning of the Japanese sentence can adopt the English one and change it, as there's no owner.

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