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Why is this sentence ungrammatical? 「お寺が公園のとなりです。」
I wrote this sentence (meaning "The temple is next to the park") in my Japanese course and my teacher said it's wrong, because I was supposed to use a は instead of a が.
My understanding is that there ...
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In this dialogue, why is は used in the question, but が in the answer?
田中さんは今日来ますか。
はい、来ますよ。あ、田中さんが 来ました。
Does Tanaka san come today?
Yes, he does. Oh, Tanaka san came.
I don't understand the use of が in the second sentence.
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「いただきます」 to accept to a food offer?
In this JLPT N3 audio practice question (#3), the correct reply to the statement is 3.
コーヒー、もう一杯いかがですか。
けっこうだと思います。
おかげさまで。
いただきます。
If the question translates as "How about another cup of ...
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Seemingly denying an offer is translated as accepting it
I've been trying to practice listening by watching Ghibli's From Up on Poppy Hill. I didn't get very far. Within the first few minutes, an older lady is offered a tea and answers:
いいえ、済ませてきたから。
As ...
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"いい会社" vs "会社がいい": What are the rules that make the first normal and the second incomprehensible?
I wrote this on a test in a fill-in-the-blank question; I tried to keep it as simple as possible. My contribution is in bold:
給料が少ないのだから、会社がいいわけがない。
This was marked wrong, and instead this was ...
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Do native/fluent speakers filter out (and "reconstruct") some particles they hear?
When I started learning Japanese, one of the many things that I struggled with was registering the one-syllable particles that I heard when practicing listening. This was especially difficult for long ...
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思います grammar including て-Form
I have question regarding the following sentence in English:
I also think that holidays are good and people need it.
At first I came up with this:
私も休日がよくて人はそれがいると思います。
But I am not sure whether ...
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Ending a sentence with いいから?
先輩の人とはうまくいってるの
それはいいから。。。
A character after a long talk asks her friend "Have things been going on well with that Senpai of yours (as dating)?"
To which the other girl answers それはいいから。。。
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How is 見送りなんてよかったのに used here?
Context: The characters are walking together after going to a work thing.
I'm stumbled on this use of なんてなんてよかったのに here. From context I can gather the character is saying it was fine to not see him ...
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テープでいいです vs テープでいいです - how to use the correct tone to differentiate them?
I've heard native speakers use テープでいいです in stores when they don't want a bag (e.g. they're just buying one item) and prefer that the staff use tape instead. Using it myself has not proved fruitful.
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