20 How to Say “part ways / split up” in Japanese

The Japanese expression “たもとをわかつ” means to end a relationship, partnership, or cooperation and go separate ways. It is often used when two people or groups decide to stop working together due to differences in values, goals, or opinions.

part ways / split up

“Pah! Singed jungle cat—go now! But remember when next I come to the Council Rock, as a man should come, it will be with Shere Khan’s hide on my head. 

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

「シア・カーンは され!」

  • predicate: 
  • 去れ

For the rest, Akela goes free to live as he pleases. 

「アキーラは すきなように いきろ」

  • predicate: 
  • 生きろ

Ye will not kill him, because that is not my will. 

「アキーラを ころしてはならない」

Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your tongues as though ye were somebodies, instead of dogs whom I drive out—thus! Go!” 

「すわってないで、でていけ!」

The fire was burning furiously at the end of the branch, and Mowgli struck right and left round the circle, and the wolves ran howling with the sparks burning their fur. 

オオカミたちは にげだした。

  • 袂を分かつ(たもとをわかつ, part ways / split up)

The Japanese expression “たもとをわかつ” means to end a relationship, partnership, or cooperation and go separate ways. It is often used when two people or groups decide to stop working together due to differences in values, goals, or opinions.

At last there were only Akela, Bagheera, and perhaps ten wolves that had taken Mowgli’s part. 

さいごに、しょうすうの みかただけが のこった。

  • subject: 
  • 少数の味方だけが

Then something began to hurt Mowgli inside him, as he had never been hurt in his life before, and he caught his breath and sobbed, and the tears ran down his face.

そのとき、モウグリは なみだをながした。

  • predicate: 
  • 涙を流す

“What is it? What is it?” he said. “I do not wish to leave the jungle, and I do not know what this is. Am I dying, Bagheera?”

「これはなんだ?」

“No, Little Brother. That is only tears such as men use,” said Bagheera. “Now I know thou art a man, and a man’s cub no longer. 

「それは なみだだ」

  • predicate: 
  • 涙だ

The jungle is shut indeed to thee henceforward. Let them fall, Mowgli. They are only tears.” 

「なみだを ながせ、モウグリ」

So Mowgli sat and cried as though his heart would break; and he had never cried in all his life before. 

まるで こころが こわれるかのように、
モウグリは ないた。

  • modifier: 
  • まるで心が壊れるかのように

“Now,” he said, “I will go to men. But first I must say farewell to my mother.” 

「わたしは ははへ わかれのことばを いわなければならない」

  • modifier: 
  • 別れの言葉を

And he went to the cave where she lived with Father Wolf, and he cried on her coat, while the four cubs howled miserably. 

モウグリは ははの けがわのうえで ないた。

“Ye will not forget me?” said Mowgli. 

「わたしを わすれないだろう?」

“Never while we can follow a trail,” said the cubs. “Come to the foot of the hill when thou art a man, and we will talk to thee; and we will come into the croplands to play with thee by night.”

「けっして わすれない」

  • modifier: 
  • 決して

“Come soon!” said Father Wolf. “Oh, wise little frog, come again soon; for we be old, thy mother and I.” 

「すぐに もどってこい」

“Come soon,” said Mother Wolf, “little naked son of mine. For, listen, child of man, I loved thee more than ever I loved my cubs.” 

「わたしは おまえを あいしていた」

“I will surely come,” said Mowgli. “And when I come it will be to lay out Shere Khan’s hide upon the Council Rock. 

「わたしは きっと もどってくる」

Do not forget me! Tell them in the jungle never to forget me!”

「わたしを わすれないで!」

The dawn was beginning to break when Mowgli went down the hillside alone, to meet those mysterious things that are called men. 

よがあけた。

Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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