Help on how to say something simple :)
 

Hi, this is my first post, I wanted to look through my old Japanese books and brush up before school starts again and have a question. Bare with me, its been a while :)

Anyways, how would I say "She will probably get married" and "She probably is getting married"

あの女の人はけこんするかもしれません。

~かもしれません, works with the the root, so is あの女の人はけこんしてかもしれません。incorrect?

Also, is there a more casual way to refer to 'Her' than あの女の人は?

Thanks, somehow I feel this is a really noob question :pandasmile:

あの女の人はけこんするかもしれません。is correct (except for けっこん)

I am not sure the difference between the two English sentences you wrote, but あの女の人はけこんしてかもしれません。 is not correct.

You could say

あの女の人はけこんしているかもしれません。But that would mean "That woman may be married"

かもしれません is closer to "maybe" than "probably".

Couldn't you just say あの女は for the lady?

or possibly even more simply 彼女は（かのじょは）

あの女 is closer to "that b***h" than it is to "that lady" and should be avoided.

Thanks! What I was trying to say in the first sentence (the correct one) was that she will maybe get married. In the other one I wanted to imply that she might be getting married that that particular moment, which あの女の人はけこんしているかもしれません。 would work, since being married is an ongoing action right.

Thanks for the clear up on the あの女の人, I wouldnt wanna say something rude on accident! I forgot about 彼女, thats probably what I was looking for.

Thanks again, i'll be posting again im sure, I plan to be studing a lot and will no doubt have more questions :)

結婚しているかもしれません sounds more like "She might be married." "To be getting married right this second" is something else, possibly involving 途中, but I'm not sure. 結婚している途中 seemed right at first glance, but I think that isn't much different from 結婚している. 途中 indicates an action currently in progress.

Also, 結婚 is けっこん, not けこん.

Just avoid the whole issue and say something like 今はあの方の結婚式でしょう。

I always forget the small tsu >,<. In 今はあの方の結婚式でしょう。i've never used あの方の before, what does it mean?

Whoa Really? O_O Thank you for the warning! Also thank you to Columbine for the suggestion!

方 is a polite (or at least, less direct) substitute for 人 when you're talking about people you either don't know, or don't know very well. You can add it onto the end of あなた to make the 'you' less direct as well.


From what I understand of being rude in Japanese (and how to avoid!) it seems to come of being either too direct, like saying あんた (あなた) instead of someone's name, or being inappropriately polite. Which is why words like おまえ are often used as swears or rude words, but there are actually ways you can use them that are quite polite and technically have an origin in polite language.