I was watching some Nichijou, and in this one scene where Mai and Yuuko are
helping Mio with her manga, Mai wrote in one of the text bubbles, "はっとばすぞ" and
on the screen it translates to "Don't make me hit you." I feel like this is
wrong, since there's no mention of "打{う}つ" (to hit) and it's too short to
translate to that. So I was wondering, does this translate to that at all or
is the translation really crappy?[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/olPqO.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/olPqO.png)

Also how does "はっか場すぞ" translate as "Don't make me kill you"?

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translation meaning anime puns
How does はっとばすぞ translate as "Don't make me hit you"?
Actually, that is not a crappy translation at all.

Literally, 「はっとばすぞ」 means " ** _I'll knock you flying!_** ", so "Don't make me
hit you." , while grammatically very different, carries a similar meaning.

The dictionary form of 「はっとばす」 is 「張{は}り飛{と}ばす」. 「ぶっ飛{と}ばす」 also has a very
similar meaning.

"Don't make me kill you!" is also not bad at all as, I hope, you now could
see.

Translations do not always need to be produced word-for-word as long as the
intended meaning of the original is maintained, which is the case here.

You might want to read the following Q & A.

[What does the word
「ぶったてる」mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/24577/what-does-
the-word-%e3%81%b6%e3%81%a3%e3%81%9f%e3%81%a6%e3%82%8b-mean)
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はっとばす is simply a sound change of
[張り飛ばす](http://jisho.org/word/%E5%BC%B5%E3%82%8A%E9%A3%9B%E3%81%B0%E3%81%99),
so はっとばすぞ by itself just means "I'll slap you." 張る can mean "to slap." See the
5th definition [here](http://jisho.org/word/%E5%BC%B5%E3%82%8B).

But note that it's only the latter half of the sentence. The whole sentence is
「あんま[じゃじゃ馬](http://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%98%E3%82%83%E3%81%98%E3%82%83%E9%A6%AC)してっと、はっとばすぞ」.
あんま is short for あんまり ("too much"). じゃじゃ馬する here is something like "to be
naughty", "to act as one pleases", "to be at the whim", etc. してっと is
colloquialism for していると. So the whole sentence is "If you keep acting
naughtily too much, I'll (have to) slap you."

The implication of the whole sentence is simply "Be a good boy", after all.
Someone euphemistically translated this into English as "Don't make me hit
you", but I hope now you understand why.

はっか場すぞ is a pun on 墓場【はかば】 (graveyard), and it's extremely difficult to
translate into English. The literal translation ("If you keep acting naughtily
too much, I'll graveyard you") certainly will not work as a joke, but I don't
know if "Don't make me kill you" works, either...
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