I need a help with a relativly simple question... Imagine... you are a… - Feed Post by Mi00ky
I need a help with a relativly simple question...
Imagine... you are a japanese woman... in the middle of the night, someone is knocking on your door, screaming in a language you don't understand
you are scared and say with an unsure voice: who is there? Sorry, I don't understand you...
(だれですか。貴方をわかりません。ごめんなさい。)
The knocking stops, but then the person behind the door is screaming again
You are scared, not knowing who might be outside. You don't understand the unknown person. You want the person to go away, so you say it to him/her. How would you say it?
I'd be really thankfull for an answer ^^
Imagine... you are a japanese woman... in the middle of the night, someone is knocking on your door, screaming in a language you don't understand
you are scared and say with an unsure voice: who is there? Sorry, I don't understand you...
(だれですか。貴方をわかりません。ごめんなさい。)
The knocking stops, but then the person behind the door is screaming again
You are scared, not knowing who might be outside. You don't understand the unknown person. You want the person to go away, so you say it to him/her. How would you say it?
I'd be really thankfull for an answer ^^
posted by Mi00ky
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If that Japanese woman is living in Japan but the person outside is screaming in different language, then chances are that they won't understand whatever you say in Japanese anyway... :P
There are so many ways to tell someone to go away, but nearly everything I can think of isn't terribly feminine nor polite...
出て行け！ Lol. Pretty sure this wouldn't fit in with the previous dialogue. I've run out of time to think of anything more sensible and have to leave for work. Hopefully someone else will come up with something much more suitable. ^^
I also thought of 出て行け！, but since he is already outside the house, I'm not sure using 出る is correct...'-' Maybe もう行ってください。 ?- Or considering that they don't understand each other: プリーズごーうアウエー！:P
@beee_17 lol
I'm laughing much too hard at beee_17's last comment, haha.- あっちへ行って maybe? Could add some adverbs before it like さっさと (quickly, immediately), and maybe tack a firm sounding ください onto the end too. I dunno.
@beee I still think 出る is probably okay, even if the person knocking is completely outside of the house, but I don't really know for sure. 
thanks for the answers !! :D, i'll take mogs answer :) maybe i will ask someone to overlook it when its finished ^^
i'm trying to write/draw a japanese-learning-comic. a hopefully thrilling story, where the protagonists have to learn japanese and the reader can do with them ^^ and i'd like to learn for myself while doing that :)
grey theoretical learning is not the way my brain like to save things very well XD at least not for long ^^
@bee: i was thinking about that answer, but i think it would not fit the situation, the woman may be polite, even if scared, but, even if the voice from the other side of the door sounds very young and begging for help, she is not willing to help her in any way, so she would not waste her time, trying to communicate somehow ^^
well... much text, less sense... thanks for the help :D
