"This ruler is very long."

Translation: この定規はとても長いです。

[BrittanyRo14]

Make sure you pronounce the as じょうぎ otherwise it's じょぎ which means penis. My language partner laughed at me >< embarrassing mistake.

[anotherwise]

That's what she said!!

[SergioMoco]

Are you sure? I can't find じょぎ in any dictionary or Google.

[Houngawa]

Same.

[Jubileena]

Oh no! That's horrible. I will be sure to remember that

[varkentje123]

Huh, really? I was strangely expecting something like that, but I didn't think it would really be the case.

[regularfanb0y]

nice

[kbreddit]

定規 - ruler. On a related note, does anyone know whether ruler is normally written in hiragana or kanji?

[kajcib]

I would say kanji.
Google trends show much greater popularty for kanji which also matches up with number of search results on every other search engine.

Furthermore jisho dictionary does not mention that this word is usually written in kana.

[HiroyukiWa2]

「定規」は「ものさし」とも言いますよ。

[regularfanb0y]

Naughty Duo 5000

[HkyK4]

Is there another word in 日本語 for "very" other than 「とても」?
Duo doesn't seem to know one.

[Dylan_Nicholson]

すごく is the one I usually use, but in everyday speech 本島に and マジで are super common ("truly" and "seriously"). It's very random which ones it accepts.
I've been told とても is not something that's commonly used during everyday conversation, it's a bit "stiff".

[HCTristesse]

Shouldn't your first example be written 本当に?

[kurokumo4]

Lots of these:
- とても
- すごく and ものすごく
- かなり
- 本当に (ほうとうに)

And so on...
https://www.lingual-ninja.com/2018/10/how-to-say-very-in-japanese.html

[amiru316]

この定規はとても長いです。

[TenomeTenebrae]

Shingen the ruler 震源の髪

[Rk5I3]

I'm intrigued by that kanji. "The hair of hypocenter"?

[TyrantRC]

lol, this is from the wiki:

"Shingen the Ruler (Takeda Shingen 2 in Japan) is a turn-based strategy game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), produced by Hot B in 1989, and released in North America in 1990."

https://www.amazon.com/%E6%AD%A6%E7%94%B0%E4%BF%A1%E7%8E%842/dp/B000068HIY

the name is written as 武田 信玄 (たけだ しんげん)

maybe he meant to write 信玄の神？idk. Homophones, how do they work?!

[Dylan_Nicholson]

Why not こちらの定規はすごく長い? Too strange a mixture of formal and casual language?
(but it's not accepted as こちらの定規はとても長いです either so who knows)

[Seraphudesuyo]

How do you say short?

[HCTristesse]

短い

(みじかい)