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14 questions linked to/from What exactly is this でね construction?
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Use わけで at the end of a sentence [duplicate]
「しかし、そうはいっても少し寂しくはありますな。やはり男たる者、空飛ぶ機動戦艦で任務をこなすという矜恃に勝るものはないわけで！<フラクシナス>には一刻も早く戦線復帰してもらいたいものでござりますな！」
I have simple question. I know the わけで is used to explain some reason. But why not use わけだ? ...
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Why does the following sentence end in the て form? [duplicate]
In a conversation between a student (Mike) and his teacher:
先生: ええ。[子供の]頃、私の家の近くに柔道をやっていてとても元気な子供がいてね。
the latter ends the sentence with the ~て form. Why is that so? I would expect the sentence to ...
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What does it mean if a sentence ends in て-form but it isn't a request [duplicate]
Full sentence: ジョギングをしてる時に足の筋を痛めちゃってさ。
The sentence ends with て but I don't understand what they want to achieve with that.
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て form can be used to indicate the past? [duplicate]
i've seen a few sentences like this one:新しいコロナウイルスが広がって,which instead of た , て was used, is it an even more casual way to make the past tense?
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て form at end of phrase but not being used for requests
俺旅芸人の一座にいたんだけどそれがあの盗賊どもに襲われちゃってさー
The て form is used at the end but not for a request. It doesn't seem to be one of those cases where the order of the words is simply "inverted" either, so ...
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Can te-form be used to modify a noun?
I encountered the te-form before a noun in the lyrics below:
見つめあなたの表情 (Staring at your expression)
隠して明星ギャラクティカ (Hide the Morning Star Galactica)
そのときめいた気持ちが未知だって
手探りでいいから
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i form in 吐く息一つにも生命が宿り
I've recently bought a Japanese scroll, for decoration, with a famous quote from The Last Samurai:
吐く息一つにも生命が宿り
But I think this is incorrect: in the film this was part of a speech, and there was ...
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What does でね mean at the end of a sentence?
I keep seeing this at the end of sentences lately, but couldn't find much explaining it online. When I see it, I feel like it's usually serving as some kind of explanation but I'm not entirely sure.
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What's the meaning of the てですね ending?
I was reading a manga and a character who is really excited about the situation says "毎日何度も指折り数えてですね！". Why does it end with the て form and why is ですね added?
The full conversation is:
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Understanding もんでね
「……捕らえた者には賞金一〇〇万ドルだそうよ」
「ひゃあ、真那もとうとう賞金首でいやがりますか。————で、捕まえてみます？」
真那が言う通と、燎子はフンと鼻を鳴らした。
「あいにく、私はできるだけ部下と装備の損害を少なくすることも仕事なもんでね」
I’m not sure about the function of the bold part. Is the もんでね the ...
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でね usage after a verb
The following phrase is said in the beginning of the movie Kimi no Na wa:
明日{あした}はわたしが[作]{つく}るでね。
The characters are talking while eating breakfast, so the meaning is probably "I'll make ...
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sentence-final -て
I'm currently using Genki (Intermediate), and I've seen a couple of times now sentences ending with -て, while I've learned to view this sort of as a conjunction, like "and".
ジョンが来ることは、...
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How is "ひとつな" used here?
Read this on a japanese article.
明日が休日なら僕と君二人きり。
する事はひとつな訳で
Does it still mean like the counter "ひとつ” here. Something like "one thing I want to do."?
Am I missing from my understanding here? I'...
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What does くて mean in this sentence? [duplicate]
For what I have studied till know, くて is
1- the te-form for negative verbs or i-adjectives and it's used to conect the verb or adjective to another word.
2- at the end of a sentence, in the case of ...
