[SianaRei]

Originally Posted by twinklerin

Hi! I have a translation question. n___n

What does "Rin to tomodachi ni naru to iukoto?" mean?

My Japanese friend said it to me over an email, but I don't really understand the 'to iukoto' part of it.

I think it's like "is it right we're friends?" or "could we say we're friends" or something?

Anyway, I'm pretty sure those could be wrong, but everything else, I get.
It's just that one part I can't wrap my head around. @__@

-Rin :,)

"to iukoto" is a kind of expression that japaneses use to give an explaination or a definition of something. It mean basically "what we call". More grammatically word by word "to" marks a citation of what is before, here "Rin to tomodachi ni naru" (become friend with Rin), next you have "iukoto", made from "iu" that means "say" and "koto" meaning "a concept" you could also use iumono for giving some explaination about something tangible (koto= concept, mono= material thing).

It hard to give more explaination without the context but I hope it will help you ^^