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Native English speaker, beginner in Japanese, but interested in Japanese grammar and historical Japanese linguistics.
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Habitual aspect @istrasci I think both readings are possible. |
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Habitual aspect @summea I didn't intentionally leave that out of the question, but isn't the tense/aspect there simply being handled by the する, making it just another case of what I outlined? |
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Habitual aspect added 14 characters in body |
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asked | Habitual aspect |
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Is ending question sentences with の really feminine? This totally aligns with all my observations. Thanks! |
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accepted | Is ending question sentences with の really feminine? |
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May 19 |
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Is ending question sentences with の really feminine? added 168 characters in body |
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May 19 |
asked | Is ending question sentences with の really feminine? |
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May 14 |
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Questions with some usages of で Doesn't answer your question, but japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/11357/… may be worth looking at. |
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May 11 |
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What is the correct way to say 小さい『つ』? It isn't the name for the character, but I often use 促音{そくおん} to refer to it, since that's what its function is. |
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May 4 |
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Can a 読点{とうてん} (“comma”) join two complete sentences? My limited understanding is that 2 is ungrammatical, but used on the net and such (just as its common to have run-on sentences in English). The "grammatical" version of 2 would require a て-form or 中止形, AFAIK. Not confident about this at all (just something I've inferred) so I'm leaving it as a comment... |
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Apr 21 |
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The uses & etymology of で Although this is probably does not have much meaning, it's interesting that in Kansai-ben you get 「じゃない」⇒「やない」・「やあらへん」. I can only analyze that as either: 1. the uninflectable や copula surfacing itself out of じゃ, or 2. just a confusion of the copula 「じゃ」⇒「や」 change with the では「じゃ」. But, on the other hand you don't get 「水はきれいや静かや」, just 「水はきれいで静かや」, which leads me to think its probably 2, not 1. (Though, oddly, in subordinate clauses I think you can still use やあらへん where you'd normally use でない -- probably because its no longer regarded as having the topic marker in it.) |
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Apr 19 |
reviewed | Leave Open What does “一味一禪” mean? |
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Apr 17 |
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What the difference between these two uses of toki? kerochanさん、この文をどう思いますか？「国へ帰る時、かばんを買いました。でも、結局、帰国できませんでした。」（Chocolateさんが書いてくれた文です。）結局こういうのはちょっとおかしいかもしれません、僕はもう分かりません。 |
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Apr 16 |
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What the difference between these two uses of toki? added 2 characters in body |
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Apr 16 |
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What the difference between these two uses of toki? @Chocolate I did mean to use 走る, not 走っている, but my usage/explanation was very unclear... I think it should be better now. |
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Apr 16 |
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What the difference between these two uses of toki? Clarify the last section. |
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Apr 16 |
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What the difference between these two uses of toki? Directly answer his question a little better. |
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answered | What the difference between these two uses of toki? |
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Apr 15 |
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What does なのね at the end of a sentence mean? Yes, the 準体助詞「の」 takes the 連体形 before it, and な is the 連体形 of the copula. It is the same nominalizer that has the property to make something a question or emphasize it. (We know it's all the same particle because, when it changes to と in 九州方言, all the relevant uses of の in the standard dialect transfer over to と.) |
