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What does ものが mean in this sentence

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Do I need to learn kanji to speak/write japanese?

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How important are these weirdly written kanji? [closed]

kanji handwriting

modified Jun 25 at 13:04 naruto 254k

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Should we use juugyouin (従業員), shokunin (職人), or jitsugyouka (実業家) when talking about employees?

meaning

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What is the correct reading of 火防女?

kanji pronunciation compounds

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What is an appropriate, respectful, and pleasing to the other person response to the statement “Your Japanese is very good”?

english-to-japanese japanese-to-english

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What does なるようになれだ mean?

meaning translation words manga sentence

answered Jul 10 at 15:07 Masaki Hara 211

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Does Japanese have characters in small size and in capital size?

kanji katakana orthography hiragana

modified Jul 14 at 0:49 naruto 254k

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What ご苦労なこって means here?

phrases manga

modified Jul 1 at 0:20 naruto 254k

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What does でポン mean?

meaning onomatopoeia

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つもり vs Simple Future

grammar formality つもり future-tense

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Need help with the meaning of “何もしない” in this sentence

grammar meaning

modified Jul 18 at 4:14 sundowner 536

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How do you identify the point of view in Japanese (for novels)?

pattern personification

answered Jul 1 at 7:37 aguijonazo 6,789

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Can '渡 + country' be generalized to say 'going to country' for any country?

compounds

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What role does たん play in this sentence?

grammar meaning words manga sentence

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What is the こと in いまを去ること20年前?

grammar meaning

modified Jul 11 at 14:52 naruto 254k

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Pronunciation of 800 / 八百

pronunciation numbers

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Noun 勢い used as an adverb?

adverbs nouns

modified Jul 3 at 3:12 Simon 474

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Can the place that the direct object occupies change the meaning of the sentence?

meaning word-order object

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Why is 株 used as variant for viruses, e.g. デルタ株?

meaning kanji word-usage

answered Jul 21 at 10:10 Enno Shioji 15k

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Can 役立たぬ replace 役立たず (with the meaning of “a worthless person”)?

conjugations

modified Jul 9 at 4:47 Chocolate♦ 68.4k

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Can <time>+から be used with an instantaneous verb?

grammar

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Usage of に in 仕上げには重宝してる

particle-に

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Rendaku (連濁) in graffiti?

readings rendaku graffiti

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Is my translation of “Me and my girlfriend live in tokyo” correct?

translation particles

answered Jul 5 at 8:07 Skye-AT 786

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What would be the difference between “Noun扱いにする” and “Noun扱いする”?

grammar

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What does 聞く actually represent (if it means both ask and listen)?

verbs etymology

answered Jun 28 at 11:19 aguijonazo 6,789

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Question regarding 「と」in dialect (probably 九州弁)

particles dialects

answered Jul 17 at 7:08 Jimmy 2,772

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What’s the difference between 決闘 and 勝負

meaning translation

modified Jul 18 at 10:31 user3856370 31.2k

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About the Verb1+ては+Verb2 structure

particle-は

modified Jul 15 at 0:09 aguijonazo 6,789

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How do I ask how long something took without「くらい／ぐらい」？

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In which year of education is the 々 symbol taught?

orthography culture

answered Jul 14 at 22:52 Skye-AT 786

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Can 拾う be used figuratively to mean “utilize”?

meaning

modified Jul 12 at 23:58 naruto 254k

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What is the たれ in 「もう一本止めたれ」?

colloquial-language dialects contractions subsidiary-verbs

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Why are there so many words that mean “first” (and other ordinal numbers)? What are the differences?

words word-usage counters

answered Jun 29 at 8:20 broken laptop 50.3k

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What does the 'よく' mean in 'よくわからない'?

grammar

modified Jul 1 at 1:39 mcvain 76

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「～ても／でも仕方がない」 Two different meanings?

grammar

modified Jul 5 at 4:52 naruto 254k

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Do all Japanese words that can be written with kanji have two ways of pronouncing them?

kanji readings

modified Jul 9 at 21:04 Earthliŋ♦ 50.4k

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What is the difference between 体が動かない and 体が動けない?

word-choice

modified Jul 6 at 7:25 Skye-AT 786

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Fun with synonyms - “dry up/wither/wilt/shrivel”

words nuances definitions synonyms

modified Jul 19 at 12:45 sundowner 536

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What are the words censored in this interview?

words

answered Jul 15 at 6:43 naruto 254k

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Weak: Yowai (弱い) vs Amai (甘い)

meaning

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Can a potential verb be used with ながら meaning during/while?

potential-form

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Use 連用形 as a 形容動詞 (na-adjective)

na-adjectives renyōkei

answered Jun 28 at 11:02 aguijonazo 6,789

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する verbs with a passive translation

grammar passive-voice

answered Jul 20 at 8:41 aguijonazo 6,789

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Learning japanese and confused on pronunciation of a word

learning

answered Jun 29 at 3:38 KI. 241

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Difference between the わに and がく pronunciation of 鰐

words

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difference between のか/か in question clause

relative-clauses particle-か

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