Comments on: しばらく (Updated)

By: How to Japanese» Blog Archive » Getting used to お陰様

How to Japanese» Blog Archive » Getting used to お陰様 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:25:41 +0000

[...] In my teacher’s case, the お陰様で is used almost exclusively as a set 挨拶 (あいさつ). Get used to it, use お陰様で元気です all the time, especially after using しばらく or 久しぶり. [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:43:47 +0000

Thanks, Hobbes. You’re on the wrong post, though.

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:15:57 +0000

Chou cream would refer to the French chou, or puff pastry, used for eclairs and cream puffs.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:03:58 +0000

For me, “gokigen yo” will always be about well-brought-up young women. In fiction.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:19:45 +0000

Nice catch, Matt. I missed that. Now I see that they both are leaving out verbs, but hisashiburi leaves out a positive verb whereas shibaraku leaves out a negative verb. Cool stuff. Updated the post.

I only recognize “go-kigen you” from this manga SOIL where the creepy neighborhood representative uses it all the time. Heh.

By: Wagahai wa kamo de aru

Wagahai wa kamo de aru — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:01:26 +0000

I agree that ‘shibaraku’ in this sense has an old-fashioned feel to it. Also, echoing Matt’s comment, the meaning of the two adverbs is quite different, though in this sense they boil down to much the same thing. As you surely know, -buri can be added to all kinds of temporal phrases. 二年ぶりの帰国　十年ぶりの来日　三ヶ月ぶりの水泳大会　三日ぶりのビール　等々

I’ve watched more than a dozen old black & white flicks in the past couple weeks or so, and although I don’t remember noticing ‘hisashiburi’ much (which isn’t to say it wasn’t there), ‘shibaraku’ comes up all the time.

If you want to sound really shibui, try saying ‘go-kigen you’ some time. The last time I tried it, I was accused of sounding like the emperor.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:28:06 +0000

Well, there is a slight difference in meaning — “shibaraku yasumu” you mean “rest for a while” but “hisashiburi ni yasumu” means “rest for the first time in a while”. It’s not as visible in point 1 but only because the verbs are left out. What it is!