永遠に心の中に eien ni kokoro no naka ni Forever in My Heart

Forever, in the heart: the verb is left off, as it is on a headstone or a card in either language. Japanese drops the possessor when it is obvious, so this is the more natural Japanese, and the closer copy of the English is Forever in My Heart (eien ni watashi no kokoro ni), the same sentence with my spelled out.

Both lines are what the language produces whenever grief or gratitude needs a sentence. 永遠 keeps a slight formality in Japanese, the word of philosophy and of the hymnal, so the line reads a little higher than its English.

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永遠に eien ni, forever; 私の watashi no, my; 心に kokoro ni, in the heart; a sentence with the verb left off, which is how such things are said on stone. This is the older of the two forms in print, on three pages from 1926 to 1941, each a different heart. The version without my, Forever in My Heart (eien ni kokoro no naka ni), is what a Japanese hand would more often write, since the language drops a possessor it can assume; this one keeps the my an English speaker will look for.

We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 永遠に私の心に.

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