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38 questions linked to/from Rules or criteria for 連濁: Voiced or unvoiced syllables in compound words
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Complicated/complex/difficult: How different are 複雑 (fukuzatsu) and 大変 (taihen)?
In the anime adaptation of the manga The Quintessential Quintuplets, as well as the corresponding manga, there are these 2 scenes:
Scene 1: (S01E04) Miku Nakano (a member of identical and the ...
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Is "入っ" still pronounced "はい" when reading it? (Okurigana question)
I am fairly new to reading kanji and grammar, and I just learned that "入る" is pronounced "はい" because it is an okurigana. My question is, are all okurigana pronounced in their &...
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Confused with the readings of the kanji 達 and the word 友達 [duplicate]
I'm trying to learn japanese and I'm confused about the readings of the kanji '達'.
If I go to a Japanese dictionary such as jisho, I can read all the on and kun readings, so far so good.
But, for ...
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鋼 pronunciation
I know that one of the kanji for Steel is 鋼 and one of the pronunciation is はがね (hagane). But in some mangas I read this kanji with the pronunciation がね (gane) without the は;
like 黒鋼 (くろがね/Kurogane).
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ロンドン橋落ちた is pronounced はし or ばし? [duplicate]
ロンドン橋落ちた (London bridge is falling down) is pronounced はし or ばし?
I heard this from a girl singing in the Guilty Crown episode 1 (8:30 mark). When I went to look it up, Google translate and ichi.moe ...
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Rendaku (連濁) in graffiti?
I was wondering about the reading of 糞社会 in the graffiti in this image:
ふんしゃかい
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ふんじゃかい?
There does not seem to be an easy way to know, as the Wikipedia page tells us:
In modern Japanese, rendaku ...
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Why is 体(たい) never softened to だい? [duplicate]
I'm looking at the word 連続体（れんぞくたい） (I'm sure there are better examples, that's just the one that made me wonder).
I find it rather clunky, whereas 「れんぞくだい」 would be much easier to pronounce.
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How do you pronounce 電報船? Is is でんぽうふね、でんぽうぶね or でんぽうせん?
I recently started to read 'Made in Abyss' and unfortunately is doesn't contain any furigana, which sometimes makes it hard for me to understand. So I came across the word 電報船, which refers to a mail ...
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What is the difference between 言いだし and 言いだす?
I found a sentence earlier containing the word 言いだしづら but I parsed it to 2 words and I found I did not know 言いだし so I looked it up and found 言いだす (which I know the meaning of), but I also found ...
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Why こころ is read as ごころ? [duplicate]
What's the difference between the Kanji 心(kokoro) and the kanji inserted after another kanji like in 乙女心 (otomegokoro)? Why the kanji in the first example is read as kokoro and in the another exemple ...
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When is "顔" かお or がお? [duplicate]
I've recently read about the slang that came from Kansai-ben, "どや顔" (doyagao) and realized that 顔 was spelt as "がお" instead of "かお". This is my first time seeing this so I was wondering what caused ...
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How do I read 係?
I came across these sentences in the same manga.
[1] よつばはこびがかりな！
[2] しんぶんとってくるかかりか？
[3] よつばちゃん新聞係？
I'm guessing it's 係 "person in charge" in these sentences. Is it がかり whenever it is a verb stem /...
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Is V2 + ころ / ごろ a pattern or not
Xは食べごろだ。
Time to eat X.
X is ready to be eaten.
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Can -koro/-goro be used as a general pattern by adding to masu-stem of the verb to produce meaning, that it is time to do this?
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Reading of the jukugo 友達 [duplicate]
I am new to the Japanese language and I have been wondering why the word 友達 is read as 'tomodachi' instead of 'tomotachi' even though its pronunciation is kun-kun (tomo-dachi) but the kun-yomi of 達 is ...
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