I am reading よつばと. In chapter 1, Yotsuba's father is carrying some boxes when
he meets the neighbor Fuuka. She sees the cardboards (ダンボール) in his hands, and
says:

> そのダンボール ゴミに出す分ですか。

And he responds:

> はい、そうしたいんだけど。

I can understant well what the sentence means... But doing a more intensive
reading, I can't get the meaning/usage of 分 in this sentence.

I have looked up the meaning of 分 in the dictionary, and saw that it can mean
part, division, etc. Doing some research I came up with the following
translation:

> These cardboards... Is this the **bunch** you want to throw in the trash?

I wonder if my translation makes sense or if I'm losing the actual meaning of
分 in this sentence.

Another usage of 分 I don't quite get is in the song 前前前世 by the band RadWimps
and theme song of movie 君の名は.

> 何億 何光年分の物語を語りにきたんだよ・・・
>
> 銀河何個分かの 果てに出逢えた・・・

Again, I can understand the general feeling the sentence implies... But I'm
not confident about the actual usage of 分.

Doing some research I managed to understand it as:

> 何億年分の物語 = A story **worth** hundreds and hundreds of light years.
>
> 何個分かの果て = 何個 (how many?) + か = some... With 分 = worth some good amount... =
> **at the end of some part of this Milkway**.

Well, I'm not sure if that makes sense.

教えてください。お願いします。
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Doubt about the meaning/usage of「分」
I echo comments that your translations are good.

One footnote I might add for the first usage is that "分" is primarily used to
refer to a part of the whole. So that line makes me wonder if there are other
cardboard boxes that are not getting thrown away. If so, your translation
might shift accordingly, say "is this the portion you want to throw away?"

Some other interesting variants of 分:

  * 分をわきまえる: be cognizant of one's place
  * オレの兄貴分に当たる人: he is practically my brother
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