Talk:Abyssal Crane Princess/@comment-31314029-20180224052654/@comment-2.97.193.233-20180301231123

That's also not necessarily the best translation of the line. I've been learning Japanese for a year and a half in evening classes and the translation above is a little bit literal. The exact phrase is "Hitori wa samishii".

Hitori can be translated to "alone" but mainly in the sentiment of "by myself" or literally "one person". Its not an inherently negative word since literally it is a counting word for people (specifically a single person). If you go to a restaurant by yourself and they ask for how many people, you can use it then. Also if you were to take a trip somewhere and someone asked afterwards who you went with you can use it then too.

wa is a particle designating subject of a sentence.

samishii is an adjective along the lines of lonely, or lonesome, or sad. A negative, isolating adjective anyway.

Putting that all together a more fluid translation would perhaps be along the lines of "Being on my own is lonely."