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Let’s learn Japanese with Anya Forger’s quote from Spy x Family (スパイファミリー).

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Anya Forger’s Quote

Japanese: ちちものすごいうそつき。でも、かっこいいうそつき！
Romaji: chichi monosugoi usotsuki. demo, kakkoii usotsuki!
English: Papa is a huge liar. But he’s a cool liar!

Analysis

ちちものすごいうそつき

ちち (noun) is used when Ayna addresses Loid Forger as “Papa”.

Actually it’s not normal to call your father ちち as it’s the word used to refer to your father in formal speech. She also calls her mother はは which is the word used in formal speech too. Normally, in casual speech, people call their father and mother お父さん and お母さん, or some people call them パパ and ママ.

However, Anya often speaks Japanese incorrectly as her language is not fully developed, which makes her sound silly but funny and cute. So, for Anya, ちち and はは are only used as nicknames like “Papa” and “Mama”.

Also, ちち and はは are usually written in kanji, but in the original comics, Anya’s lines are written mostly in hiragana, which expresses her immaturity and cuteness as well.

ものすごい (adjective) is used to emphasise the great amount or degree of something. In this case, it modifies うそつき meaning “liar” so ものすごいうそつき means “huge liar”. You can also say すごいうそつき but ものすごい can express more immense and greater amount than すごい.

So the first sentence ちちものすごいうそつき means “Papa is a huge liar”.

でも、かっこいいうそつき

でも (conjunction) means “but” used at the beginning of a sentence.

かっこいい (adjective) means “cool”, “good-looking“, “handsome“, “stylish“, and so on. It’s used not only to express attractive looking, but also actions or behaviours that people admire. In this case, they have to leave the apartment because of her, but he lied that it’s because of a poisonous snake so that she wouldn’t have to blame herself, which is kind, smart and cool.

So the second sentence でもかっこいいうそつき means “But (he’s) a cool liar”.

Examples

父/母 (my father/my mother)

父ちちと母ははのような素敵すてきな夫婦ふうふに憧あこがれます。

chichi to haha no yō na suteki na fūfu ni akogaremasu. 

I admire wonderful married couples like my father and mother.

父ちちはいつも母ははの言いうことを聞きいている。

chichi wa itsumo haha no iu koto o kiite iru.

My father always listens to what my mother says.

子供こどもの頃ころ、母ははは優やさしく、父ちちは厳きびしかった。

kodomo no koro, haha wa yasashiku, chichi wa kibishikatta.

When I was a child, my mother was kind, and my father was strict.

ものすごい (emphasises the great amount or degree of something)

日本語にほんごの文ぶんを作つくるのに、ものすごい時間じかんがかかる。

nihongo no bun o tshukuru noni, monosugoi jikan ga kakaru.

It takes me forever to make a sentence in Japanese.

ものすごい人ひとの数かずに圧倒あっとうされた。

monosugoi hito no kazu ni attō sareta.

I was overwhelmed by the great number of people.

今朝けさ、ものすごい音おとで目めが覚さめた。

kesa, monosugoi oto de me ga sameta.

I was awakened by the extreme sound this morning.

かっこいい (cool)

彼女かのじょみたいなかっこいい女おんなになりたい。

kanojo mitai na kakkoii onna ni naritai.

I want to become a cool woman like her.

コーヒーを片手かたてに仕事しごとに向むかうビジネスマンはかっこいい。

kōhī o katate ni shigoto ni mukau bijinesuman wa kakkoii.

Businessmen going to work with coffee in one hand is cool.

家族かぞくを何なによりも大事だいじにするお父とうさんは、世界せかいで一番いちばんかっこいい男おとこだ。

kazoku o naniyorimo daiji ni suru otōsan wa sekai de ichiban kakkoii otoko da.

My dad who cherishes his family more than anything else is the coolest man in the world.

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