Timeline for How adverb placement affects the meaning of conditionals
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| Apr 24, 2023 at 20:36 | vote | accept | George | ||
| Mar 19, 2023 at 0:09 | comment | added | aguijonazo | @George - It modifies nothing. それなら何か is more like “Then what?” except it's not actually asking what. | |
| Mar 18, 2023 at 23:01 | comment | added | George | This might be a bit pedantic, but knowing that 何か is an interjection still doesn't indicate which part of the conditional it modifies. In the original sentence, do you perceive it as modifying the antecedent (それなら) or the consequent (the part after the comma)? Or perhaps it modifies the whole conditional at once instead of just one side of it? I appreciate your help. | |
| Mar 18, 2023 at 5:10 | comment | added | chocolate♦ | They have the same meaning. 何かい is less common than 何か, I think. (～かい is common in Tokyo (or Edo) dialect.) I think they wrote 何かい there because 何か in this meaning can be rephrased as 何かい, but 何か meaning "something" cannot be rephrased as 何かい. (to distinguish it from "何か" as "something") | |
| Mar 18, 2023 at 5:05 | history | edited | chocolate♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2023 at 5:03 | comment | added | George | Thanks for your answer. Do you know what is meant by 何かい in the first definition? I'm not seeing this word in Japanese dictionaries the I've checked. | |
| Mar 18, 2023 at 4:56 | history | edited | chocolate♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2023 at 4:46 | history | answered | chocolate♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |