InkCheck.

watashi wa ikinokoru

People search for this as: i will survive survivor survive

18/ 100
Do not ink this

'I will survive' as a literal sentence — complete with the subject pronoun.

What a Japanese person actually thinks

Reads exactly like page 12 of a beginner's Japanese workbook. The 私は is the tell — no native speaker would include it here.

Meaning

Literally
I + (topic) + will survive
Actually
A grammatically complete sentence. Japanese normally drops 私は entirely; including it makes the whole thing sound like a textbook example.

Scores

Naturalness●●

Grammatical but unnatural. Explicit subject pronouns mark text as translated or as language-learning material.

Coolness

Six characters, three hiragana, and it announces itself as a translation exercise.

Watch out

  • highIncluding 私は is one of the clearest non-native tells in written Japanese. Dropping it would already improve this a lot.

Get this instead

  • ikinuku
    to survive it through to the end
    The verb Japanese actually uses for surviving something long and hard. No pronoun, and the 抜く carries real grit.
  • fukutsu
    unyielding
    Two characters. Says the same thing about you without narrating it.

On skin

Orientation: vertical

N/A — change the words.

← Check something else