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"Is this Saturday the ninth?"
Translation:今週の土曜日は九日ですか?
31 Comments
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The english translation is ambiguous, when trying to translate to japanese. I read it as Is this (ie. today) Saturday the 9th rather than Is this Saturday, the 9th. I would suggest a comma to clarify - Is this Saturday, the 9th?
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Pretty sure the の in there creates the phrase, if you will: "This week's Saturday" or "the Saturday of this week". So, essentially, the sentence is saying: Is "this week's Saturday" the 9th. No comma because "today" is not implied.
255
Really weird sentence overall. Makes sense in Japanese yet sounds pretty absurd in English.
The English is ambiguous though - it can mean "is this day Saturday the 9th", or "is it the 9th on this Saturday". The former you might use if somebody was talking about a day or an event and you wanted to clarify they meant "Saturday the 9th". I don't know how you'd ask that in Japanese - I tried これは土曜日9日なの? but not accepted.
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I agree with other comments that this one is ambiguous, but I get what it's trying to say: "Is this coming Saturday (or this week's Saturday) the 9th?"
However, if you were trying to say "Is this (as in, today) Saturday the 9th?", would that be "これは九日の土曜日ですか?" or "今日は九日の土曜日ですか?" Or would it be said another way entirely?