Hi! In 先生はやさくにらんでいる what is yasa (ku) ? - Feed Post by Annick

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  mog86uk

  I'm going to go with there being a typo somewhere.
  
  I'm fairly certain にらんでいる part can only be 睨んでいる. So it doesn't allow many possibilities for the rest of the sentence.
  
  やさく is a Japanese name. If that sentence really doesn't contain any typos, then this is the only thing I can come up with that could make sense.
  
  Doing an exact phrase search on Google for "やさくにらんでいる" returns 0 results, and same for alternative conjugations, so I still think there's a typo...

  August 14, 2015 at 12:21pm
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  mog86uk

  What would be cool is if 野菜 were being comically treated as an i-adjective and made into an adverb, which could be kind of funny for that sentence. I doubt that's what it is though. :D

  August 14, 2015 at 12:26pm
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  Annick

  I'm thinking about a typo as well, probably more やさしくにらんでいる (I definitely prefer kanji to kana, it just confuses me)
  Haha Yasai ! It would be funny.

  August 14, 2015 at 2:48pm
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  Annick

  先生は優しく睨んでいる makes more sense

  August 14, 2015 at 2:52pm
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  Annick

  but how does it look?

  August 14, 2015 at 2:56pm
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  Annick

  Gentle scowl?

  August 14, 2015 at 3:19pm
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  mog86uk

  Yeah, I think that's correct. Gently glaring or gently scowling.
  
  If I swap やさく with やさしく on that Google search I get a few results, but only a very small number. It really doesn't seem like a common expression.
  
  I was interested in what other adverbs are used with 睨む, so I did skimmed through the search results copy-pasting each one I found. キツく and がましく seem to be by far the most common ones.
  
  Here's what I copy-pasted:
  
  【やわい】膨らまし柔く睨んでいる
  【がましい】恨みがましく睨んでいる
  【きつい】キツく睨んでんでいる
  【すごい】すごーく睨んでいる
  【ものすごい】物凄ーく睨んでいる
  【いじわるい】意地悪く睨んでいる
  【エロい】エロく睨んでいる
  【ねたましい】嫉ましく睨んでいる
  【するどい】锐く睨む
  【かわいい】可愛く睨む
  【かわいい】可愛いく睨む
  【うらめしい】うらめしーく睨む
  【よい】よ〜く睨んでいると
  【かるい】軽～く睨んでいる
  【あまい】甘～く睨む
  
  That one I listed first is a vague alternative possibility. Using romaji layout on a qwerty keyboard, it wouldn't be too hard to accidentally press S instead of W. But it still seems a lot more likely that it is やさしく not やわく. Was interesting to look into this. ^^

  August 14, 2015 at 8:54pm
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  Annick

  yes there is not of a lot results, even when just hiragana or a mix of kanji-hiragana. That's interesting though. So there are two ways to use kawaii?
  エロく睨んでいる haha! Well all of this is informative. Thanks

  August 15, 2015 at 2:40am
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  mog86uk

  The second usage of かわいい is an incorrect spelling, but I saw quite a few places were it had been spelt that way. I just thought it was interesting so I kept it in the list.

  August 15, 2015 at 5:29am