Do Japanese have a problem with us?

[Romanova]

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Aww man Understood, but what of the example in my above post? How accurate was that translation? The one about taking turns.

Sorry for mostly romanji, but I don't have japanese text on this comp atm (rebuilt awhile back got lazy getting reinstalling some stuff).

The correct phrase for taking turns is kōtai de suru or: 交代でする

So if you want to be polite you can say something like,

Sumimasen, NM [or ??? or w/e you want for taking turns, for the most part they know what NM means, and if they don't they can easily tell by the rest of the sentence] ga koutai de surimasuka?

Or more proper: Sumimasen, watashitachi wa NM o koutai de surimasuka?

Though you can probably drop the implied "we" (watashitachi) bit as that feels a little "booky".


[edit] just for future reference if you see the lines across a vowel that just means an extension of that vowel sound (as in the "o" in "kōtai") if you can't type that however you can ad a "u" after the vowel to meant the same thing. so koutai = kōtai