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May 17 |
answered | What are the rules determining the use of the dash in katakana? |
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May 14 |
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Thank you for X: ～をありがとうございます I see where you're coming from, but I think the proposal is just too convoluted: "ありがとうございます is basically just a polite form of ありがとう, and this is just a short form of ありがたく存じます". On the other hand, I am okay with a model where ありがとう(ございます) has become able to take a direct object due to interference from ありがたく存じます. But this is different from saying that ございます is somehow a surface form of 存じます. |
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May 13 |
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Thank you for X: ～をありがとうございます This explanation works for ありがたく存じます, but it doesn't work for ありがとうございます, and I don't agree that they're interchangeable. 存じます is roughly equivalent to 知る or 思う, so it's "allowed" to take a direct object marked with を; but ございます is roughly equivalent to ある, which isn't "allowed" to do that. |
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May 12 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 10 |
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How did the verb 掛ける come to have many meanings? @dotnetN00b Sure, I'm not criticizing the question, just offering one reason why it might not be getting answered. Re the second part, even that really requires more than intuition -- I'd prefer hard data... |
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May 10 |
answered | What exactly does とばかりに mean? |
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May 10 |
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How did the verb 掛ける come to have many meanings? Speaking as an etymology nerd if not a (professional) etymologist, the reason that I haven't jumped on this question is because a proper answer would easily fill a PhD dissertation (and require about as much research)... the question is just too broad to answer in a satisfying way, at least from my POV. |
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May 9 |
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What is the difference between 見える／聞こえる and 見られる／聞ける? @dainichi OT for this question, but re the last issue you raise, Frellesvig, Vovin etc. argue that /-e-/ was actually a "transitivity switch" morpheme, making intransitive stems transitive (ap- → ap-e-) and transitive stems intransitive (yak- → yak-e-). (Also, I think you know this but just to avoid confusion in the thread as a whole, this morpheme is also distinct from the -y(e)- morpheme Dono is talking about.) |
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May 8 |
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Multiple onyomi That particular word actually is in the dictionary (if the dictionary is big enough). It's pronounced ほんさつ and it means something like "main book", "main text", as opposed to 別冊 (べっさつ), supplementary volumes. But the general answer to the question is basically as Kaz says: it depends. e.g. In the case of 本冊, 本 seems likely to mean "main" or "this" (so almost certainly "ほん", not "もと"). 冊 is most often さつ in Japanese, so unless you have a strong reason to suspect さく or ざく (e.g. the context is tanzaku at Tanabata), ほんさつ is the most likely reading. |
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May 8 |
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Multiple onyomi Just a suggestion: this answer would be better if you used an example other than 上手, because that particular two-kanji combination can also represent うわて. |
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May 6 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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May 6 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 2 |
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Is there a difference between んがため and ために? Unfortunately, this etymology is not correct. The source of the ん here is not ぬ but む, which you can think of as the ancestor to the modern -(y)ou verb ending. That's why it's 勝たんがために and not 勝ちんがために, for example. |
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Apr 28 |
awarded | Announcer |
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Apr 28 |
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Usage of doubled non-past tense “た” deleted 18 characters in body |
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Apr 28 |
answered | Usage of doubled non-past tense “た” |
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Apr 26 |
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Which kanji has the greatest number of strokes? @ジョン Huh, you CAN do links in comments! Thanks. I don't think it's worth an answer, though, since as you say it really depends on how much you want to search. I'm sure someone, somewhere has proposed a kanji made of three "taito" (a la 晶 made of three 日s); would that then be the winner? If we're restricting ourselves to "real" kanji, is "taito" really real? (Wikipedia offers no evidence supporting this proposition, and some against it.) As your answer explains, it's like asking what the longest word in English is: the answer depends on how you define the set of acceptable candidates. |
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Apr 25 |
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Which kanji has the greatest number of strokes? I'm just gonna throw this in for trivia value: たいと (you can find it at Wikipedia). Undeniably on the Japanese side of the line, 84 strokes. |
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Apr 25 |
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What is that expression used to generally mean “…is what I would say, but…”? Variations of this one include "nanchitte" and "nantsutte", if that helps... |
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Apr 22 |
answered | What is that expression used to generally mean “…is what I would say, but…”? |
