On this page, you can learn Japanese words you can use in a daily conversation with the song Pretender by Official髭男dism (Ofisharu Hige Dan Dizumu).
Official Music Video
The learning focus on this page is the expressions below.
- 君の運命の人は僕じゃない
- 辛いけど否めない
- でも離れ難いのさ
You can find them in the video. Go to 1:33.
せんせい
Let’s have a look at the expressions more carefully. Scroll down please.
君の運命の人は僕じゃない
- 君（きみ／ki mi）means ‘you’.
- の (no) is a particle which means ‘of’ or ‘s.
- 運命（うん・めい／u n me i）means ‘destiny’.
- の (no) is a particle which means ‘of’ or ‘s.
- 人（ひと／hi to）means ‘person’.
- は (wa) is a topic marking particle which doesn’t mean anything.
- 僕（ぼく／bo ku）means ‘me’.
- じゃない (ja na i) is a copula conjugation, which means ‘is/am/are not’.
辛いけど否めない
- 辛い（つら・い／tsu ra i）means ‘hard’ or ‘difficult’.
- けど (ke do) means ‘but’.
- 否めない（いな・めない／i na me na i） means ‘cannot deny’.
アシスタント
If you want to say ‘It has been denied’, this is how you say it: それは否定（ひてい）されました。
でも離れがたいのさ
- でも (de mo) means ‘but’.
- 離れがたい（はな・れがたい／ha na re ga ta i）means ‘hard to be separate’.
アシスタント
If you want to say ‘easy to Verb’, use Verb Stem Form + やすい. For example, ‘easy to be separate’ is 離れやすい.
- のさ is the same as です, although のさ sounds much more casual.
できる子
You should not use のさ in a daily conversation unless you perfectly understand what it means.