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30 questions linked to/from The meanings of ものだ
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Where can I read more about もの? [duplicate]
I read a sentence that drinks make you fat:
飲み物は太るものだ
I don't understand how the particle もの affects the verb here, or if it even acts like a particle.
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What does 「ものと見られます」 mean in this sentence?
From a news segment in Persona 5:
切り札として招いた社長が事故で死亡し、 改革の遅れが懸念されているものと見られます。
What does ものと見られます mean? Upon looking it up, I found that it means "to think; to suppose; it is believed/expected ...
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Help with translating そんなもんか
In anime teasing master takagi-san, Takagi says な~んだ そんなもんか after Nishikata claims he can skip a rock 15 times. From what i found online it sound like shes saying i dont believe that claim.
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what are the usages of ものか?
The only definition i can find is that it expresses irony/rhetorical question, but that doesnt really fit into expressions like どういうものか? etc.
So what can be the usages of ものか?
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Why is もの used in 「無駄に使ってしまうもの」 (instead of こと)? [duplicate]
In
お金というものはあったらあったで無駄に使ってしまうものだ。
Money is something that when you have it, you end up wasting it.
the phrase 「無駄に使ってしまう」 ("used towards waste!") is used to modify もの。
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interpretation of this もんだ [duplicate]
悪魔も理解できんもんは 怖がるもんだ does this もの mean thing as in "the thing that devils are afraid of, are the things that they dont understand"
Or is there something im missing?
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Interpretation of もの in ヒーローとは常にピンチを壊していくもの
ヒーローとは常にピンチを壊していくもの!
I'm really skeptical about this. The fact とは is used makes me think that もの here means "someone" and the fact that だ is used makes me think he is stating some fact. ...
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how does te form+ なる(ものか) work?
i pretty much know what it means, but i wanna know the nuance, what the person tries to actually say. what the なる here does??
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What does 「ものさ」 mean here?
In Miffy - 日本語 あめの ひの わすれもの! at around 5:14
Miffy with her family planned to go to the beach and before they started play, Uncle said:
「おじいちゃんの子どもの頃は砂浜でお城を作って遊んだものさ。」
Weblio辞書 says:
活用語の終止形に付く。多く「だって」「...
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Structure of ～くもなろうものだ
久方ブリダナ…百年前我ヲ封ジタ
タカマガハラノ 野良大神ヨ
我ヲ仕損ジテ石クレニ成リ果テルモ
マダ我ニ拘ッテイルトハ
"石ノ中ニモ百年"カ
…黴臭クモナロウモノダ！ (source: 『大神』)
Said by the villain to the protagonist, who's been sleeping as a stone statue for the last ...
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Implied noun from の [duplicate]
In this part of the Jack and the Beanstalk story, there's this one sentence:
庭{にわ}にとても大{おお}きな豆{まめ}の木{き}があったのです。
translated as
There was a very big beanstalk in the yard.
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(推量形+) というものだ: nuance and function? [duplicate]
圧倒的だなんて言葉では表現しきれない、絶望的な戦力差である。
しかもそれらが皆、親でも殺されたかのような調子で士道に憎々しげな視線を送ってきているのだ。どれだけ肝が据わった人間でも汗くらい滲ませようというものである。
だが、改変後の折紙の意識が『士道への思い三〇パーセント:節度七〇パーセント』だったところに、『士道への思い一二〇パーセント』が足されたなら、...
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which meaning does ものだ have here?
I am trying to understand もの completely but I fail to understand it and mix up the meanings sometimes.
I know that ものだ can mean that you want to emphasis something you feel etc according to this post, ...
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Confusion regarding the usage of 〜たいものだ
In the grammar exercise book for JLPT N2, I came across the following question:
（ ）を食べてみたいものだ。
a. あ、このおいしそうな料理
b. 今日はユリさんのうちで手料理
c. 一度、その珍しい魚
the correct answer is c.
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What would be the function of the というものだ in this context?
一体、士道や琴里にどんな狙いがあるかわからなかったが、それが七罪にとって不利益になるものであろうことは想像に難くなかった。きっと何らかの方法で七罪に復讐するつもりに決まっているのだ。それこそ、肥え太らせてから食べてしまうつもりかもしれない。それならば、七罪にこんなに美味しいご飯を与える意味もわかるというものだ。
Hi. What would be the function of the ...
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