What does いい加減 mean?


いい加減 has been used in the game Chrono Trigger but in every dictionary that I
looked up for this vocabulary, I just found words as translation but in the
game it's not translated as any of those words.

The English translations for "さ、いいかげん起きなさい" are:

> "Come on, now! Out of bed with you!",

and in the retranslated version,

> "Come on, get up already!"

Does iikagen mean "come on"? Why is it translated like that? Dictionaries
don't put iikagen as "come on".




A translation is a translation. Its main purpose is to convey the general idea
expressed in the original language for the speakers of the target language.
Things get lost and things get added in the process.

「いい加減{かげん}」 all by itself **_does not_** mean "Come on!" at all if you want to
know the truth. How could it? It is a na-adjective and not a verb of any kind
to begin with.

Does that mean the translations you obtained from your sources are no good?
No. They are actually valid translations. It makes good sense in the target
language (English), doesn't it?

「いい加減」 used in the line 「さ、いいかげん起{お}きなさい。」 means that **_an action or state
has reached a point where one wants to see it end soon_**. What is that
action/state in the sentence in question? It is the **_sleeping_** by the
person that is being asked to wake up.

Thus, the translator opted for what s/he opted for instead of a more "literal"
TL like "You have slept long enough. Wake up, now!" Which one sounds better in
English?

So many users here seem addicted to bilingual sources, but a question like
this can be solved within seconds if one were willing to look up the word in a
monolingual dictionary. Just read the definition -2 in
[デジタル大辞泉](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A5%BD%E3%81%84%E5%8A%A0%E6%B8%9B-430132#E3.83.87.E3.82.B8.E3.82.BF.E3.83.AB.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.B3.89).

**_Note_** that for this particular meaning/usage, the 「いい」 part is pronounced
「いい{HH}」 and not 「いい{HL}」. The latter pitch accent is used when 「いい」 means
"good".

