でっかいお兄ちゃん

English translation: Big (size)

21:50 Jul 21, 2019
Japanese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Japanese term or phrase: でっかいお兄ちゃん
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could you help me with the following sentence? In a short story, a kid has to leave his family for a while and will be taken in another family. The kid is very reluctant and doesn't want lo leave his mother. In order to convince him, all the nice things awaiting him in the new home are listed to him. Between them...

家にはでっかいお兄ちゃんもいる

Does that でっかい mean that the お兄ちゃん are much older than him or is it about body size?

Thank you very much!
Riccardo91
Italy
English translation:Big (size)
Explanation:
As far as I know でっかい/でかい/デカイthey all refer to the size of something/someone, and not to age. In this particular case, I would imagine there is a big guy living with the boy's new family.
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Diego Biserni
Italy
Local time: 05:26
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Big (size)


Explanation:
As far as I know でっかい/でかい/デカイthey all refer to the size of something/someone, and not to age. In this particular case, I would imagine there is a big guy living with the boy's new family.

Diego Biserni
Italy
Local time: 05:26
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Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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Thank you for confirming!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  k-k: Dekkai onichan means that there is an age difference between the speaker who is a kids (as matured people use "Ani" "Niisan" instead of "onichan" and his elder brother is "big" compared with him, meaning the onichan is maybe highschooler or above.
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  -> I sincerely apologize if I have got this wrong.
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