I've been trying to figure out this phrase for a long time, and tonight I bagged it: ii kagen nishiro

I think that's how the word boundaries land. It's written like this: いい加減にしろ and it's the imperative of ii kagen nisuru which means "to quit something one has been engaged in too long". In its imperative form it means is "Knock it off, already!" or "That's quite enough!"

I've heard it in a lot of places, but in particular one of the aliens says it in the third episode of Shingu and it's been bothering me for a long time.

I'm still having trouble parsing the phrase. I know that ii means "good" and I think that 加減 kagen means "degree, extent" (it has a bunch of meanings). But that's where I get lost, because I can't figure out what nisuru means. (Is it a variant of suru "to do"?)

I'm thinking that the literal meaning (in the imperative form) is something along the lines of "a sufficient amount has been done".

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Japanese at 01:51 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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