Translation from japanese to french (or english)
Hi,
Bonjour,

(en) I was trying to translate a sentence but I don't arrive to undertand the end. If someone can help me with the meaning...
(fr) J'essayais de traduire une phrase mais je n'arrive pas à comprendre la fin. Si quelqu'un peut m'aider pour la signification...

« (...)思いを馳せていただけると思います。»

(en) 思い means "the thought", 思います means "to think" but I don't understand what "馳せていただけると" means. I see the verbs "いただく" (to receive ?) and "馳せる" (to think of, here ?) but together it doesn't make any sense for me. Thank you very much !
(fr) 思い signifie « la pensée », 思います signifie « penser » mais je ne comprends pas ce que signifie « 馳せていただけると ». Je vois les verbes « いただく » (recevoir ?) et « 馳せる » (ici : penser à, se rappeler ?) mais ensemble ça ne signifie rien pour moi. Merci beaucoup !

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Translation from japanese to french (or english)
Hi,
Bonjour,

(en) I was trying to translate a sentence but I don't arrive to undertand the end. If someone can help me with the meaning...
(fr) J'essayais de traduire une phrase mais je n'arrive pas à comprendre la fin. Si quelqu'un peut m'aider pour la signification...

« (...)思いを馳せていただけると思います。»

(en) 思い means "the thought", 思います means "to think" but I don't understand what "馳せていただけると" means. I see the verbs "いただく" (to receive ?) and "馳せる" (to think of, here ?) but together it doesn't make any sense for me. Thank you very much !
(fr) 思い signifie « la pensée », 思います signifie « penser » mais je ne comprends pas ce que signifie « 馳せていただけると ». Je vois les verbes « いただく » (recevoir ?) et « 馳せる » (ici : penser à, se rappeler ?) mais ensemble ça ne signifie rien pour moi. Merci beaucoup !

Answer

"思いを馳せる" means to think someone or something that is far from you. But when it's tranlated in English, just "think" is used. e..g.) ケンは宇宙に思いを馳せた。(Ken thought of the universe.)
"いただける" is the potential form of "いただく", a honorific word. Therefore it's usually translated "could" in English.
As a result of them, "思いを馳せていただけると思います。" can be translated "I think you could think (someone/something). "

Does this make sense for you?

Answer

思いを馳せる　means to think about one's family in hometown.
いただく　means eat or drink of one of the forms of polite Japanese is called keigo.

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