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59 questions linked to/from What is the meaning of ~んです/~のだ/etc?
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What's the difference between じゃない and じゃないんだ? [duplicate]
I was learning how to conjugate the state-of-being and I didn't see じゃないんだ in the conjugation chart...I often hear people use it in movies and dramas... is it part of the conjugation for the state-of-...
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Why no んです in the following sentence…?
Happy 2018 everyone! And I'm (a little) belatedly kicking it off with a question that may quite possibly be a duplicate, but I thought I'd risk it anyway. I quick searched it but there are so many ...
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Can を used with だ/です
I came across the following passage in a mystery manga. The main character is explaining that the as of yet unknown criminal intentionally made the listener think that Kimisawa was the criminal (...
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Word choose between か and のか
I have a question about the following sentence:
お母さんが、八百屋で長いこと、何を買うか決まらず迷っています。
Is it possible to replace "か" with "のか" without misunderstanding in this sentence? Namely,
お母さんが、八百屋で長いこと、...
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のだから vs のだ (んだから vs んだ)
When I learnt this grammar point a while ago, my teachers told me not to use it with "から". There reasoning for this was that のだ already implies a reason or supporting information for a conclusion.
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Questions about の→ん contraction, でござる→でございます shift
【原文】Original version
各これらの語の特徴はいつからなの?何時代ですの?
第一、「のです」と「なのです」を書いて「んです」と「なんです」を書かなかったことはいつからなの?
第に、「でござる」を書いて「でございます」を書かなかったこともいつからなの?
私の日本語がよくないですと、すみません!
Edited version
I have two questions ...
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What is pimsleur saying (shtain desnoga)?
Listening to the first Pimsleur Japanese audiobook and I'm having a hard time recognizing the words its saying. It says to say "I want to go shopping" and then in Japanese says something that sounds ...
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“must have been” construction
Passage in question:
よっぽど おなかが すいて いたんだなあ。
As I understand, the translation is something along the lines of "You must have been very hungry." My problem lies within the bold text: how exactly each ...
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What does 開けたかった mean?
From the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
Japanese translation on Aozora:
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001847/files/57347_57224.html
「食ったほうがいいか?」
「そう言ってるじゃないか」少年は優しく答えた。「サンチャゴの用意ができてから蓋を開けたかったんだ」
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Negative questions + の
First I'm kinda confused. I'm concerned if these 2 questions bring the same nuance or not... "Isn't he young?" and "He is not young? / He isn't young?". Both sounds quite different ...
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What verb form is the phrase '見上げたんだ' using? [duplicate]
From the song 'Nirvana' by Tia.
I am currently working on translating this song as an exercise and I noticed that this phrase is different from the verb forms I already know.
見上げたんだ
The meaning is ...
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hontou nano ka , is “na” here part of the question marker or is it something else?
I know that you can use ka, no, and noka as question markers. But what is "na" in "hontou na no ka" . is it another form of question marker altogether or what does it mean the "na" in that sentence?
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Japanese sentence that needs translation
I'll just write the sentence here and hope I get some good translations. Always thankful. :)
"僕がしたいって聞いた事をこんなにも叶えてくれようとしてくれてるんだもん"
(My rough translation): I want to do (or things I want to do) that ...
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What is the difference between kattan and kaimashita?
In Japanese the mashita ending is the past form of polite verbs.
For example:
To buy (root form) - Kau
To buy (polite form) - kaimasu
To buy (polite form, past) - kaimashita
In my Japanese text ...
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Difference between の and から for denoting a reason/explanation
So I remember that back in the day I learnt that things in Japanese were explained by using から or an explanatory particle の and then the more formal version of から is ので.
Ever since then I've just ran ...