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"からいですか？"
Translation:Is it spicy?
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Karai is a name of spicy curry eaten in Pakistan and this kanji looks like a pan on a stove.
It also sound as the expression "¡Caray!" in Spanish, which is my reaction when I eat some spicy food.
We brazilians has a slang like that "Carai", meaning "Caralho" (as a expression, not the noun). This also, is my reaction when eating something spicy.
Quite correct, I didn't check what got posted and the stupid IME swapped out the kanji. Deleting my comment, since there's no need for duplication.
The moment when carai means *** in your language. I guess it makes sense. Guy eats something spicy and yells "Carai!!!"
Caray in Spanish. As in "Ay Caray, Spanish & Portuguese have a lot of similar words"
On the peevious screen it read 辛い as "tsurai" and on this screen it reads it as "karai." What is the difference?
Oh, interesting. I never made the connection before, but the kanji for two separate words, からい and つらい, are actually identical; context would be the only way to tell them apart.
- 辛い【からい】= "spicy, hot"
- 辛い【つらい】= "arduous, painful, heart-breaking"
I think つらい is generally only written in hiragana though, so the default reading of 辛い would be からい (I'm not a native speaker so I may be wrong about that).
Yes. Tsurai is incorrect. Karai means spicy. I just messed this up in a restaurant, and the waiter was very confused.
I'm not sure what @Mngani meant by "picture translation", but つらい isn't necessarily incorrect; it's simply a different word with a different meaning.
So... technically speaking, since the topic is not specified, could it be also translated to: "am I spicy?"
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I believe so, yup haha
It's said that context generally defaults to yourself for sentence structures like this, but I doubt people will think you're referring to yourself if you say this particular sentence out of the blue without context :P Without said context, my anime-fu tells me the response will usually end up as "何 (なに) が？" which I believe translates to "What is?"
But yeah, this sentence technically reads something like "____ spicy?", and you can fill in the blank with any topic/subject that you want :P Otherwise it's contextual.
Ja não basta falar ja mata ne , perto da policia, tem de falar karai desu ka perto de qualquer um ,
Imagina a cara dos meus amigos quando eu disse que pra ser formal em japônes você tem que falar "goza"imasu regularmente.
With that kanji you put in another comment, it does, but that is definitely an uncommon kanji. The more common interpretation of からい is 辛い, which means "spicy". Generally, "salty" is 塩っぱい (しょっぱい).
This is a bona fide Duo bug. In "Type what your hear"-type exercises, the system picks the main answer for the exercise, runs it through TTS, and expects you to write that back to you. In this case, the main answer is kana-spelled, and an alternative answer is spelled using kanji.
Now, the problem is that if you write back an alternative answer you get an error, since that is not what it spoke to you. However, it has no concept of "this alternative answer is really the same phrase, but using an alternative orthography;" it thinks you used a synonym, and marks you wrong for it. Ordinarily, it would be right; but not in this specific case.
Of course, the problem is that there is no straightforward way to mark sentences as being "more equal" so they are accepted in "type what your hear" exercises.
