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May 14 |
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への対へ/に-Difference between への and へ/に If you like - I was simply drawing a distinction between "an utterance that felt incomplete" and "an utterance that felt complete". That is, あなたへの私の愛 is not trying to be a sentence, but あなたに私の愛 is trying to be a sentence (and is failing). I suppose you said it better. ;) |
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May 14 |
answered | への対へ/に-Difference between への and へ/に |
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May 14 |
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Questions with some usages of で で, in all of these circumstances, feels to me like the て form of the copula. I'm sure a grammar book would do a better job of telling you what that is than I would, but yes, all of the で sound the same to me. |
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May 14 |
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Why is 〜に受かる used to mean “to pass”? (There's also the use of に as marking a cause (e.g. 暑さに音を上げたのは人間だけでない, it's not only humans who suffered from the heat - taken from Kaiser et al's "Japanese - a comprehensive grammar"). I doubt this too though, but this is purely my intuition.) |
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May 14 |
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Why is 〜に受かる used to mean “to pass”? It's difficult to answer questions like "why is it に?". (Perhaps it just is, and there's no reason Japanese case particles should be explicable within an English frame of mind.) Grammatically, it's に simply because 落ちる is intransitive. Be careful with the literal meaning: 恋に落ちる means "to fall in love", and 地面に落ちる means "to fall onto the ground". If you want to think of it as "falling onto a test", feel free, but my guess is that this is not how Japanese people think of it. |
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Feb 9 |
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What is the English equivalent of「ひとこと欄」? I guess just "comment box"? It's worth pointing out that 欄 is a pretty common word for text fields (e.g. in browsers), like 名前欄 (box into which you put your name). I saw someone refer to some box on Twitter as 「お気に入り」欄 ('favourites' section). The Facebook status update box is 近況欄. |
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Feb 9 |
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What does ドン引き mean? Even if you can't read Japanese well, my dictionary gives "talking or acting in such a way as to make those around you draw away". WWWJDIC says "drawing away from someone because of their speech or actions; having the mood ruined". It gives an example sentence, in which ドン引き is translated as "you creeper!". Seems clear to me. |
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Dec 22 |
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What does “クズな” mean? Google shows lots of results for both 屑な and クズな. Is it possible that the word has only recently become popular as a な-adjective? |
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Dec 19 |
accepted | Double subject construction? |
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Dec 19 |
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Double subject construction? Thanks very much, @snailplane (and dainichi). I'll accept this answer simply because it's a bit more detailed than Flaw's. :) |
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Dec 19 |
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Double subject construction? Thanks - appreciated. :) |
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Dec 19 |
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Double subject construction? Oh - perhaps the name is more transparent than it seemed at first glance. The "exclusive-listing" meaning of が is the one that renders "YがX" as meaning "the (only) thing with property X (in the world / in consideration / in the scope of this discussion) is Y", is that right? |
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Dec 19 |
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Double subject construction? Can you explain exactly what you mean by "exclusive-listing", please? (I could perhaps reverse-engineer a definition from your XのはY sentences, but I'm wondering what it means in general, without reference to this double-が nonsense.) |
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Dec 18 |
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Double subject construction? @istrasci Oh, I didn't know HTML was allowed here. Thanks. |
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Dec 18 |
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Double subject construction? So can I say 郊外が家賃が安い? (That is, can I change the subject?) |
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Dec 18 |
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Double subject construction? Ack, my formatting messed up. I don't really know how to fix that, because it looks fine on the edit screen... |
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Dec 18 |
asked | Double subject construction? |
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Dec 17 |
answered | I am confused about the meaning of the conjugations of [買]{か}う |
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Dec 17 |
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Usage of Japanese counters @TsuyoshiIto Thanks. |
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Dec 17 |
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Usage of Japanese counters (And, now that I've clarified the question, could it be clarified in the OP / reopened / answered, please?) |
