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| bio | website | japanese.stackexchange.com/… |
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| location | 仙台 | |
| age | 93 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | Oct 11 '12 at 9:11 | |
| stats | profile views | 230 |
J'accepte les réponses rédigées en français, anglais et japonais.
I accept answers in English, Japanese and French.
日本語、フランス語や英語での答えを認めます。
- I write in British English, so, if you correct my messages, please stick to it (e.g., colour/color, kerb/curb, flat/apartment, marmite/vegemite).
- J'écris principalement en français de France (avec une orthographe non-simplifiée de préférence), mais il m'arrive d'y mélanger du français du Québec.
- 主に標準語で書くんだけど、なかなか流暢に使える東北弁でも書くことがある。んだげんともほどんど通ずねぇがら、使わねごとにすっぺちゃ！
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Jul 3 |
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How should I choose between [知]{し}る and わかる? @Derek: I did not claim I gave any logic. What I did claim, is that to understand the difference, you have to study usage. I tried to give examples that were systematic. With only those, you should be able to get 80% or more of your usages correct. If you were looking for a linguistics answer, I'm sorry; I just care about being able to produce sentences that a native speaker would produce, without thinking. |
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Jul 1 |
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What is the *proper* differentiation between 来る and 行く? added 88 characters in body |
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Jul 1 |
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What is the *proper* differentiation between 来る and 行く? @rep: both I think. |
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Jul 1 |
answered | What's the difference between the に祈る【にいのる】 and を祈る【をいのる】 forms? |
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Jul 1 |
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What is the *proper* differentiation between 来る and 行く? Well, suppose you're talking about a great party that everyone knows about. You'll tell your British friend "are you coming tonight?", but (I think) that you would never tell your Japanese friend "来ますか？". You'll have to say "行きますか", as you're not the host. |
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Jul 1 |
answered | What is the *proper* differentiation between 来る and 行く? |
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Jul 1 |
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How should I choose between [知]{し}る and わかる? Added the "sum up". |
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Jul 1 |
answered | How should I choose between [知]{し}る and わかる? |
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Jul 1 |
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How should I choose between [知]{し}る and わかる? I 'understand' (分かる) Japanese, which is a thing, as I speak it. And I know (知る) it too, since it is a famous language. |
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Jun 30 |
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is there a difference between さみしい and さびしい？ I also think that it's a "b->m" evolution, but don't have time to verify that. |
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Jun 30 |
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is there a difference between さみしい and さびしい？ I think it's not only m->b, but m<->b. In a similar fashion, you also have 寒い【さぶい】. If I remember correctly, these changes are more frequent in the Kansai area than in the Kantô. |
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Jun 30 |
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Why is it お[腹]{なか}が[空]{す}いた but [腹]{はら}[減]{へ}った? Just by the absence of particle in 腹減った, you could see that is much more colloquial. In fact, I only heard "young" guys use it. That might explain the difference or lack of consistency. |
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Jun 30 |
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低い鼻 vs 短い鼻 and 高い鼻 vs 長い鼻 ? You'll never get a satisfying answer to "what if Pinnochio was a human." There is probably not standard way to describe accurately things that do not exist… |
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Jun 29 |
awarded | Editor |
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Jun 29 |
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What are the meanings of ~とも [tomo] and ~かしら [kashira]? A question is better with a verb… |
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Jun 29 |
suggested | suggested edit on What are the meanings of ~とも [tomo] and ~かしら [kashira]? |
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Jun 29 |
answered | When is a person referred to with 様 in the mass media and what does it signify? |
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Jun 29 |
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What is the usage of 先 vs. 元? Some examples that get you confused would help us help you… |
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Jun 29 |
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Are there cases when two or more particles will occur next to each other without intervening lexical words? So, you can have three or four particles together! Samples from the net: "どんな人でもの英語・英訳 - 英和辞典・和英辞典 Weblio辞書" (で+も+の) "誰にでもはできないバーチャルオフィスで都市銀行に法人口座開設 · 会社設立. さて会社を作ったからには法人の銀行口座を作らないといけません。"(に+で+も+は) |
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Jun 29 |
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To not have: 持っていません or ありません？ I think it's the same in any language. Take English for example: what would you answer to "Are you good at maths?" (a) "No I am not." (b) "No I don't."? No need to think in order to reply! |
