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Feb 21 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Oct 12 |
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Tips for japanese online radio or podcasts TuneIn Radio and some extra text to let me post |
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Aug 6 |
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Did any writing systems exist before kanji was imported? @atlantiza Sorry, just the part about common folks not writing down their thoughts and such.. :) Maybe common sense is the wrong term, but it's something you'd know if you've gone to elementary school I think. (wow I sound like such an ass now) |
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Aug 4 |
answered | Did any writing systems exist before kanji was imported? |
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Aug 1 |
awarded | Talkative |
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Aug 1 |
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How did やわらかい gain its い? I wish to remember reading somewhere that Japanese tend to prefer い-adjectives, which is reflected by the fact that there are a lot more of them. Perhaps some of the above natives can confirm this. Then it's quite possible that it simply "turned into" an い-adjective, much like 新しい originated from 新たな. |
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Jul 27 |
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Relation between kanji readings and meanings @aoeuueoa I'm not sure if you say いき is a reading of 生 when it's written 生き though, I think(!) you say い is a reading of 生 in a case like this. And I was hoping for more examples of other kanjis, but maybe you got the answer you were looking for from Chris. |
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Jul 27 |
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Relation between kanji readings and meanings なま doesn't have the connotation of raw, it means raw. And I don't think いき is a reading of 生. I'd like to see more examples to prove your point. Yes, most often one or more of the words a kanji is used in relates to the meaning of the kanji itself. This seem rather logical to me and while I don't know a whole lot of kanjis yet myself, I think it would be easier to find kanjis where none of the words it's used in relates to the meaning of the kanji itself. |
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Jul 20 |
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What does なきや mean? Splitting hairs here, and I may not even be right, but I thought ~なきゃ was a contraction of ~なくては. なくては -> なくちゃ -> なきゃ. |
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Jul 19 |
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dekireba/dekitara @dainichi it has been edited now, yes. Completely rewritten, even. |
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Jul 17 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Jun 26 |
accepted | は as sentence final particle |
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Jun 26 |
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は as sentence final particle Thank you, simple as that. :) I have not come across わ as a particle in my studies yet. |
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Jun 26 |
asked | は as sentence final particle |
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Jun 12 |
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What are the rules for substituting の with ん? @TsuyoshiIto "I am not writing this to convince you" - well you're doing a pretty good job of it. :) I agree that there are probably patterns we follow even when being lazy in this manner. |
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Jun 9 |
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What are the rules for substituting の with ん? To avoid a long, possibly meaningless discussion about it, I think we should just agree to disagree. :) Though I'd be interested if you could provide a source for your statement about modern linguistics, because in my answer I essentially paraphrased a person whom I think would know about that. |
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Jun 9 |
answered | What are the rules for substituting の with ん? |
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Jun 9 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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May 30 |
answered | Does ～たり～たりする mean “and” or “or” in dictionary definitions? |
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May 28 |
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Particles で and も and でも @JNat word of advice, do not try to make literal translations. Like Tsuyoshi Ito says, this should be a no brainer. You already got it, you're just trying force english word on top of it, stop that. |
