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If you wanted to say "light skin" or "dark skin", would it be correct to say "色白" and "色黒"?

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What is the exact nuance of じゃないもんな in this sentence?

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What 可愛い means here?

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Honorific suffix in exchanges between university staff

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How are Constructed Languages referred to?

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What is the exact nuance of ガラ in ガラじゃない

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Differences between 建てる and 建つ [closed]

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How to count trains per day?

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Does the kanji 両 have the reading teru (てる)?

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What does "なんだもんなあ" mean?

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徒花”と”咲いて散っていく = bloomed and fell away “as” a fruitless flower

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What is the best way to say "online now" in Japanese?

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What does と見て mean in this context? [duplicate]

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Confusion with interpreting NHK title and subject scope when using て form

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What does なあって mean here?

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Which form is the correct causative-passive 聞く?

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Meaning and usage of 刺激(しげき)?

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Is 片付きます a word?

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What does ちょうどいっか mean here?

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How to tell when 知らない is "I don't care"?

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What is "のほうだろう" here?

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What is the meaning of けっこういらっしゃる in the following context?

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Meaning of さもあろう

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What does the 「いるん」in だれか好きな人がいるんですか。

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"そのことですか" is this some kind of expression?

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Why do we use が instead of を with a 他動詞 in the expression 車が止めてあります?

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When do you add の after a country name? [duplicate]

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N1 Goi practice question. Synonym of 凌ぐ [closed]

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How is いらっしゃる used with nouns?

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Trying to understand ツッコミ and 突っ込まない and similiar

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Why use 耳元 rather than just 耳?

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Is 夜だから some kind of idiomatic expression?

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Is "で一発だ an expression?

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Stating that the above terms are "open to discussion"

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How does たり + される work?

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How to search the 書き下し文 of a 漢文? [closed]

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