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[v5r,vt]
▶ to infer ▶ to figure out ▶ to get an idea of ▶ to tell ▶ to imagine ▶ to guess ▶ to grasp ▶ to fathom ▶ to understand ▶ to know |
6. | A 2023-04-28 16:33:46 Robin Scott <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | gg5, prog, wisdom うかがい知れない 4,990 |
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Comments: | うかがい知れない is also quite common. I don't think a note is needed here. It would be difficult to make it concise. Dropping 窺いしる. |
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Diff: | @@ -13,4 +12,0 @@ -<k_ele> -<keb>窺いしる</keb> -<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> -</k_ele> @@ -23,2 +18,0 @@ -<xref type="see" seq="1172230">窺う・うかがう・3</xref> -<s_inf>esp. ~ことができる・できない</s_inf> @@ -26 +19,0 @@ -<gloss>to guess (correctly, based on available evidence)</gloss> @@ -28 +21,8 @@ -<gloss>to perceive</gloss> +<gloss>to get an idea of</gloss> +<gloss>to tell</gloss> +<gloss>to imagine</gloss> +<gloss>to guess</gloss> +<gloss>to grasp</gloss> +<gloss>to fathom</gloss> +<gloss>to understand</gloss> +<gloss>to know</gloss> |
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5. | A* 2023-04-27 09:03:40 Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | うかがい知る 29022 43.2% 窺い知る 22294 33.2% 伺い知る 15834 23.6% 窺いしる 40 0.1% https://proverb-encyclopedia.com/dictionary/ukagaisiru/ 表面に現れていない事柄についておおよその見当をつける。察知する。 うかがい知る 29022 うかがい知ること 23967 <-- look at how common this is (beginning of ことが出来る ことが出来る うかがい知ることが 17999 うかがい知ることができ 7874 https://hinative.com/questions/215004 What does うかがい知る mean? nobu_japan figure out joealvo 10 Nov 2015 Japanese うかがい知る=to guess about something that's hidden behind/that lays behind what you can see/what you know 広辞苑(Koujien) says: 表面に現れていない事柄について、おおよその検討をつけること 彼は無表情だったので、彼の感情をうかがい知ることはできなかった。 I couldn't see what he was feeling inside because he was showing no expressions on his face. reverso: You can figure out the class of vegetarians from the twofold increase in the number of vegetarians over the past 10 years... 菜食主義者の層を窺い知ることが出来ます。 (also dekiru) https://dict.line.me/enjadict/search?range=example&query=guess what You can guess what the current situation of emergency medical service is like through [from] the results of this survey. → うかがいしる[窺い知る] この調査結果から救急医療の実態をうかがい知ることができる |
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Comments: | Definitions are all about knowing an under-the-surface fact based on the information one is able to see (inference). "to infer" is already baked into 窺う。 Reverso often glosses things like うかがい知ることができる as "able to guess" with the implication that the "guess" is correct. 知る may also be adding that nuance. sankoku's example also uses the うかがい知ることができる structure (他人にはうかがい知ることができない). defn: 外に現れたことから、中の様子を知る。 proverb-encyclopedia gives a synonym of 察知, which we gloss as: to sense; to infer; to gather; to pick up on; to get wind of; to perceive These seem consistent with the many examples in reverso. As a gloss, "understand" in particular seems to discard all sense of nuance. (I am sure there are situations it could be used, but it doesn't seem like a particularly good general choice). The great majority of reverso examples (and there are a good number) are of the ことが出来る・できない structure https://context.reverso.net/translation/japanese-english/うかがい知る The volunteered hinative example also used this structure, as did the random examples I found when looking for evidence of "figure out". "to see" , as in "are able to see, are unable to see..." is actually one of the most common reverso glosses. I'm sure my "to guess" parenthetical remark already doesn't look great. I'm not sure what I'd want to add "too see" to this list. Similar for "to tell", "they couldn't tell what he was thinking (because his displayed no outward signs") |
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Diff: | @@ -14,0 +15 @@ +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> @@ -21,0 +23,5 @@ +<xref type="see" seq="1172230">窺う・うかがう・3</xref> +<s_inf>esp. ~ことができる・できない</s_inf> +<gloss>to infer</gloss> +<gloss>to guess (correctly, based on available evidence)</gloss> +<gloss>to figure out</gloss> @@ -23 +28,0 @@ -<gloss>to understand</gloss> |
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4. | A 2013-09-03 06:38:40 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...> | |
3. | A* 2013-09-03 04:29:04 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | Ngrams, GG5 (窺い知る as headword, うかがい知る in examples.) |
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Diff: | @@ -4,0 +4,3 @@ +<k_ele> +<keb>うかがい知る</keb> +</k_ele> |
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2. | A 2010-07-27 00:09:42 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...> | |
Comments: | 伺い知る gets more hits |
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Diff: | @@ -8,1 +8,1 @@ -<keb>窺いしる</keb> +<keb>伺い知る</keb> @@ -11,1 +11,1 @@ -<keb>伺い知る</keb> +<keb>窺いしる</keb> |
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