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西部戦線異状なし (せいぶせんせんいじょうなし) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

西せい部ぶ戦せん線せん異い状じょうなし

Meanings

1

noun

All Quiet on the Western Front

work of art, literature, music, etc.

Title of Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 novel and its film adaptations (1930, 1979, 2022).

『西せい部ぶ戦せん線せん異い状じょうなし』は第だい一いち次じ世せ界かい大たい戦せんを描えがいた小しょう説せつです。
'All Quiet on the Western Front' is a novel about World War I.

Written forms

西せい部ぶ戦せん線せん異い状じょうなし
Original Japanese title of the novel and film; uses 異状 (unusual condition) rather than 異常 (abnormality).
西せい部ぶ戦せん線せん異い常じょうなし
Variant spelling using 異常; also seen but less common than the original 異状.

Kanji

西west, Spain
部

section, bureau, dept

戦war, battle, match

線line, track

異uncommon, different, queerness

状status quo, conditions, circumstances

常usual, ordinary, normal

Etymology

Japanese translation of the German title 'Im Westen nichts Neues' (literally 'Nothing New in the West').