Please help me :)

[MeIsKevin]

Hey, I'm working on a picture and I would like to translate 2 sentences to japanese.

"I want to tell you"
and
"Happy birthday"

I would really appreciate some help, thank you (◕‿‿◕)

[duo797]

Originally Posted by MeIsKevin

Hey, I'm working on a picture and I would like to translate 2 sentences to japanese.

"I want to tell you"
and
"Happy birthday"

I would really appreciate some help, thank you (◕‿‿◕)

The second sentence is really easy: お誕生日おめでとうございます (o-tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu) If this is to a friend, though, お誕生日おめでとう works just fine. As for 'I want to tell you', I'm a bit tired and I'm sure someone more versed than me can give you something better than I could right now. Do you want this whole thing to say 'I want to tell you happy birthday'?

[MeIsKevin]

Originally Posted by duo797

The second sentence is really easy: お誕生日おめでとうございます (o-tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu) If this is to a friend, though, お誕生日おめでとう works just fine. As for 'I want to tell you', I'm a bit tired and I'm sure someone more versed than me can give you something better than I could right now. Do you want this whole thing to say 'I want to tell you happy birthday'?

Thank's for the help

I'm making a pic with 2 frames. One of the should say "I want to tell you" and the next frame will say "Happy birthday".

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by MeIsKevin

Thank's for the help

I'm making a pic with 2 frames. One of the should say "I want to tell you" and the next frame will say "Happy birthday".

You can't structure it that way because what you say comes before the verb "to tell" in Japanese.

You probably could get away with something like

なんか言いたいことがあるの
ハッピーバースディー！

(I've got something to tell you--
Happy birthday!)

Of course, the way you write the first part (vocab-wise) hinges on whom you are writing it to.

[chryuop]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

なんか言いたいことがあるの
ハッピーバースディー

Just a question. Shouln't it be なんか言いたいことがあるのは? Just a personal curiosity....

[duo797]

Originally Posted by chryuop

Just a question. Shouln't it be なんか言いたいことがあるのは? Just a personal curiosity....

Negative. This の isn't nominalizing ある, it's being used as のです. I'm not even sure you can nominalize something like existence >_>, as I certainly am having trouble doing it in my head.

Edit: That makes me think, considering his name is Kevin, shouldn't we say なんか言いたいことがあるんだ ? I was under the impression that just using の at the end of a sentence (not a question) was more female. In fact, I've been corrected on Lang-8 for ending a sentence with のよ. I was told it sounded a bit too feminine.

[Andreandrea]

Originally Posted by MeIsKevin

Hey, I'm working on a picture and I would like to translate 2 sentences to japanese.

"I want to tell you"
and
"Happy birthday"

I would really appreciate some help, thank you (◕‿‿◕)

You could say something like
"教えたいことがあるけど。。。" (oshietai koto ga aru kedo...)
"。。。お誕生日おめでとう！" (...otanjoubi omedetou!)

Of course, it depends who you're writing it to. this is a pretty casual way of saying it.

Hope it goes well

[Nyororin]

なんか言いたいことがあるの
ハッピーバースディー！

Umm, why put なんか in there at all? Why 言いたい? And why a の at the end?

Sorry, but this just sounds really weird to me in it`s entirety...

If you NEED to write "something" (which you shouldn`t), at least put it as なにか.
言いたい would sound a lot better as 伝えたい... And the の isn`t needed at all, and makes it sound really wrong to me. Just imagine sticking a か on the end of that, and having an angry guy come up to you saying it...

ETA; If I were writing a card like that (I wouldn`t, but that`s beside the point) - I`d probably write it as this;

（君に）伝えたい事がある/あります･･･
お誕生日おめでとうございます！

With the 君に optional, and either ある or あります at the end.

[duo797]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

Just imagine sticking a か on the end of that, and having an angry guy come up to you saying it...

Well... if he said Happy Birthday to me after, I'd be kinda relieved.

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by duo797

Well... if he said Happy Birthday to me after, I'd be kinda relieved.

Yeah, but if there was a か on the end, he would be saying something like "You got something to say?!?" - so a birthday wish would be kind of hard to stick on the end there.