Editing Zelda: Ocarina of Time/The Three Goddesses/Dialogue

== Coming out of the Deku Tree ==

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|よくやってくれた、ありがとうリンク…
|You did well, thank you Link...
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* 遣（や）って呉（く）れる literally "to do for someone". 

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|お前の勇気…たしかに見せてもらった…
|Your courage.. you have certainly showed it.
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* 見（み）せて貰（もら）う literally "[I] am shown by you", ie "[I] received the act of 'showing'".

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|お前はワシの願いをたくすにふさわしい少年であった…
|You were the right choice to entrust my wish to.
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* literally "the appropriate youngling"

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|では、あらためてお前にワシの願いを伝えたい…
|Then, I would like to convey my wish to you...
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== The Story of the Three Goddesses ==
 
* Note: The story of the Three Goddesses is even more archaic than the Deku Tree, so it uses even more archaic language... you have been warned. :)

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|では…心して聞いてくれ。。。ワシにのろいをかけた者は黒き砂漠の民じゃ…
|Then...listen carefully...The man who cursed me was one of the people of the dark desert..
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|あの者は邪悪な魔力を操り、ハイラルのどこかにあるという聖地を探し求めておった…
|That person used his wicked power and is searching for the sacred land somewhere in Hyrule...
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|なぜなら…聖地には、神の力を秘めた伝説の聖三角、トライフォースがあるからじゃ...
|Because, in the sacred land, there exists a legend of the sacred triangle that hides the godesses' power, the Triforce
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|世に　理なく、命未だ　形なさず。
|In this world, reason and life has yet to appear. 
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未だ - まだ, 成（な）さず uses old negation ず instead of ない. Note that ず is both 連用形 and 終止形, so this sentence could both mean "In this world, without reason, life, form, ..." and "This world is without reason, life, form." Note that it matters... (As a matter of fact, didn't the Deku Tree also use ぬ to end a sentence? If so, the first connotation is the right one.) 

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|混沌の地ハイラルに黄金の三大神、降臨す。
|Unto this chaotic land of Hyrule, the three golden godesses descended.
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* 𦣪 is an informal variant of 鹽 (old form) or 塩 (current form). It means salt. Something went wrong here however, in the game it actually says 降臨 (to descend).
* In old Japanese, there was the so-called atrributive (連体形) form used to attribute verb actions to nouns, eg. 降臨する神 [the god which descends]. Distinctive from this, there existed another verb form, the so-called finshing 終止形 form, only used to end sentences, eg. 神が降臨す (the god descends). This explains why す　is used here. Today, these two forms got merged.

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|すなわち、力の女神ディン…
|Namely, Din, the goddess of power
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|知恵の女神　ネール…
|Naryul, the goddess of wisdom
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|勇気の女神　フロルなり。
|Farore, the goddess of courage. 
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* なる　was (from に有り) originally only a copula (same meaning as です), later and in modern Japanese it came to mean "to become". Since this is classical Japanese, なり means です. And again, なり is  終止形　used here to end the sentence. なる would be the 連体形 used for attributing. By the way, this explains adjectives such as 聖なる,単なる,... and the な of na-adjectives is just the short form of なる ;)

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|ディン…そのたくましき炎の腕をもって、地を耕し、赤き大地を創る。
|Din, carrying strong fire in her arms, cultivated the land and created the red earth.
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|ネール…その叡知を大地に注ぎて、世界に法を与える。
|Nayrul, poured her intelligence unto the Earth and gave this land law.
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* 注ぎて is nowadays contracted to 注いで.

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|フロル…その豊かなる心により、法を守りし全ての命　創造せり。
|Farore..with her abundance and heart, protected the law and created all life.
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* Here we see the the na-adjective 豊か used with なる.
* 守りし is the old past of verbs. Added to the 連用形. き is 終止形, し 連体形, there is no 連用形 and しか is 已然形.
* せり　is verb す(to do) in 未然形 form　せ, and the helper verb of completion り　(It comes from 有り etymologically added to 連用形, which then underwent a sound change し+あり＝＞せり. This explains why it *seems to be added to the 未然形 unexpectedly.) is added in 終止形, which is り. Means the same as した/しました. Don't worry, you don't need this in daily life.

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|三大神、その　使命を終え、彼の国へ去り行きたもう。
|The three godddesses, with their mission complete, left this land.
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* It seems たもう the sound changed form (あうー＞おう) of 賜う/給う （たまう）, mostly conveying a polite meaning only.

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|神々の去りし地に、黄金の聖三角　残し置く。
|In the land the Godesses left, they left behind the golden sacred triangle.
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* 去りし is the past again.

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|この後、その　聖三角を世の理の礎とするものなり。
|Afterwards, the sacred triangle became the seed of order in this world.
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|また、この地を聖地とするものなり。
|Moreover, this place became known as sacred.
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とする　means "to consider (something as...)"

== The Deku Tree's Last words ==

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|あの　黒き砂漠の民をトライフォースに触れさせてはならぬ！
|This desert man cannot get the Triforce!
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|悪しき心を持つあの者を聖地へ行かせてはならぬ！
|The evil intentions the man carries must not enter the Sacred Land! 
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|あの者はワシの力をうばい死ののろいをかけた…
|That person stole my power and gave me a death curse...
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|やげてのろいはワシの命をもむしばんでいった…
|The curse I got is still eating away my life.
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|お前は見事にのろいを解いてくれたが、ワシの命まではもとには戻らぬようじゃ…
|You did well curing this curse, but my life won't return...
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|ワシはまもなく死をむかえるじゃろう…
|I will in a short time meet death...
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|だが…悲しむことはない…
|But, don't be sad..
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|なぜなら　今　こうして…お前にこの事を伝えられたこと…
|Because, now, I told you this thing...
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|それが　ハイラルに　残された最後の希望だからじゃ…
|And left my last wish for Hyrule...
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|リンクよ…ハイラルの城に行くがよい…
|Link...Go to Hyrule Castle...
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|その城には、神に選ばれし姫がおいでになるはずじゃ...
|In this castle, the princess chosen by the gods is there...
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|この石を持ってゆけ…あび男がワシにのろいをかけてまで欲したこの石を…
|Take this stone...that man wanted the stone, so he cursed me...
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|コキリのヒスイを手に入れた！デクの樹サマからたくされた、森の精霊石（せいれいせき）だ
|You got the Kokiri's Jade! You are entrusted by the Deku Tree, the spirit rock of the forest.
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|たのむぞ、リンク…お前の勇気を信じておる…
|I entrust you Link, I believe in your courage...
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|妖精ナビィよ…リンクをたすく、ワシの志をついでくれ…
|Navi..help Link, that is my will...
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|よいな…ナビィ…さらば…じゃ…
|It will be good...Navi..Goodbye...
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== Navi's Parting words ==


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|行きましょ、りんく！ハイラル城へ！！
|Lets go, Link! To Hyrule castle!
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|さよなら…でくの樹サマ…
|Goodbye.. Deku Tree..
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