Cut 切る【きる】Japanese Lesson #87
Publishedシゲはみんなを驚 かせようと、カッターで指 を切 ってしまう芝居 をしたが、うるさくて怒 られただけだった。
Shige tried to surprise everyone by pretending he cut himself with a cutter but everyone just got angry at him for being noisy.
Vocab Breakdown
みんな：everyone
驚かす（おどろかす）： to scare/surprise someone
カッター：cutter
指（ゆび）： finger
切る（きる）：to cut
～てしまう：used with a verb to carry the nuance of “regrettably” doing x. It’s a bit unnatural to translate it in words though so it’s just best to understand the nuance and leave it at that.
芝居（しばい）：acting, pretending
うるさい：annoying, noisy
怒られる（おこられる）：It’s important to note that the passive form is used a lot in Japanese but it’s a little unnatural to translate it as “he had people angry with him” when all it is conveying is “people were angry with him”
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