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According to Wikipedia,
Historical and modern linguists classify Korean as a language isolate. [A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical ... ...
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I have difficulty understanding the dialogue below.
Context: Somebody asked him what does this phrase「好きじゃなくもない」means. He thinks it means "like."
I have two ways to interpret his response.
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Can you ask a pet's name in this way?
For example, この犬は誰ですか。
Who is this dog?
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I encountered this section in a manga but am unable to determine exactly what is meant by「あうあう！」
I have 2 possible interpretations:
It's just being said as affirmation, which is corroborated by this ...
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This question had the following example:
人間に上下はないと考えるアメリカ人にとって、日本の目上と目下の関係は面倒だろう ?
and the OP was asking about the meaning of は. I'd like to expand on this.
Firstly, I'm assuming that 上下は is part of ...
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Earlier today in a comment I tried to explain to a community member that they should put whatever happened in the past behind them. I used "water behind the bridge" and "let bygones be ...
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I found the following sentence in the novel I'm reading
「これが旅に出る最後の好機だと思っている。これまでももちろん旅に出ようと思えば資金に当てをつけることはできた。だが、踏ん切りがつかなかった。」
What does 「当てをつける」mean here? Does it mean the speaker found a place to ...
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The title should be pretty self-explanatory. What meanings does each convey? And in what kinds of circumstances would one be used instead of the other?
For example, what are the differences between ...
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I'm listening to some dialogues in Japanese and I write them down.
I need to write down sound of laughter in sentence (speech) like in English for example
Ha ha
What I need should have notion of ...
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I came across the sentence 混乱する気持ちもよーくわかる in my manga. I have translated it, but the use of the dash (which was vertical in the actual vertical text) stumped me for a bit (I thought it was よう at first,...
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I've come across two different ways (at least, apparently for me) to classify verbs. Please note that this question is fundamentally different from Verb classifications by japanese learners.
The first ...
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My fiance and I will be moving to Japan sometime next year and are trying to prepare our dog for the experience by teaching her Japanese commands so she can be easily handled by kennels/vets/groomers/...
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Last summer my family hosted a Japanese exchange student for two weeks, and we've kept in touch with her a lot. Unfortunately, about 2 months ago I found out she had Leukemia. She said she'll recover.....
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I am having high confusion between katakana n ン and katakana so ソ. They look very similar even with the different stroke directions, they look very similar. Could anyone suggest how to differentiate ...
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I'm currently reading a short paragraph here that has the following sentences:
男{おとこ}はそう言{い}うと、もう一枚{いちまい}マントを出{だ}して、急{いそ}いで着{き}ました。北風{きたかぜ}は二{に}枚{まい}のマントを脱{ぬ}がせるために、もっと強{つよ}く風{かぜ}を吹{ふ}きました。
In ...
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Here is a multiple-choice question from my grammar exercise book. I can rule out all but two choices below.
医者の話では、2ヵ月ぐらいで退院できるだろう＿＿。(a.そうだ b.ということだ）
The correct answer according to the book is “b....
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Hope you are all good and not having too much struggle with the whole C-situation all around us. I am currently going crazy on how to translate this sentence here:
通り魔の太陽みたいな人だ
通り魔 as far as I know ...
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