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10 questions linked to/from Use of する to describe one's colour
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How to say a pet/human has a characteristic rather than 'it is something'- How to say something has (adjective) [duplicate]
I am trying to describe what my pet looks like. Let's say her name is 'inu'. I know how to say inu is big. You would say; inu wa ookii desu. You could say what she is by putting a different adjective ...
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Usage of the phrase している [duplicate]
While I was working on 日本語総まとめ N3 文法, I came across the following.
ここの砂は星みたいな形をしている.
Now I know that this translates to "The sand here in this area are star-shaped."
What I don't understand here is ...
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~色がする or ~色をする?
I came across the following sentence in an exercise, with the following propositions:
森さんが飼っている魚は、とてもきれいな色_____している。
A. に
B. を
C. で
D. が
I learnt that する is used with が when talking about something ...
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Meaning of (と)した in やんわりとした暖房
What does とした mean in this sentence?
心ばかりのやんわりとした暖房の教室の昼休み。
I saw this, but I think it's a different とした.
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Meaning of 顔をする?
Does 顔をする mean to make a face or to have a particular type of face? When I looked at the Japanese dictionary definition for する, it was quite confusing since one had ある状態・性質であることを示す compared to 人や物がある形・...
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How to describe someone who has a "radio voice"?
I would like to tell someone to talk more, because she has a radio voice.
The term I am looking for should be either non-formal or slang.
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Describing facial expression
Edit: The link provided by @broken headphones has helped resolve my する/している problem (I think). I have one problem remaining though.
Given @Sonny365TANAKA's answer that 彼女は長い髪の毛です is not grammatical, ...
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Meaning of する verb in 「その少女は小さい口元をしている」
I was looking up in the dictionary, and came across a sentence like this:
その少女は小さい口元をしている。
From what I understand, している means "is doing" or "does". So the girl "does" her little mouth?
Then I ...
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Meaning of ハートしている
In a boxing match, a trainer is telling a boxer to stay away from the opponent and wait the end of the round to recover, but he doesn't listen to him. Then the trainer says this sentence:
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Is there any difference between ～～をする and ～が～
I came across this sentence (from the Core 1000 material of iknow) while learning vocabulary:
彼女は青い目をしています。 She has blue eyes.
Doing some searching I found this answer explaining that ～をする can ...
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