There's a phrase I've heard a lot of times, and it means something like "You don't suppose?" It's an indication that an unexpected thought just occurred to someone, a surprising idea that might be true. I just ran into it specifically in the third episode of Kirameki Project.

Anyway, to my ear it sounds like moshikashitte but that doesn't seem to be right. I've got that 若し moshi means "supposing". And tte is a quote mark, sometimes used rhetorically. It can be translated pretty well as "you say".

In the 7th episode of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Yuuno transforms into his boy form, and it's the first time Nanoha sees it. She hadn't suspected he was anything except a magical ferret. She gets rather incoherent for a minute, and one of the things she says is "Yuuno-kun tte! Yuuno-kun tte!" That's Yuuno, you say? That's Yuuno, you say?

Anyway, I can't figure out the middle word or the total phrase. None of the dictionary entries for it make any sense to me. (Unless, maybe it's this one: 下賜.)

Help me out here, folks. What is it I'm hearing? I want to add it to my "common phrases" list.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Japanese at 07:06 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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