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まえ for sentence ending [duplicate]
Ive been watching a series and some of the (male) characters end their sentences with mae. It seems to be an assertion of some sort but im not quite sure.
For example:
これからも頑張って続けたまえ
病院に残りたければ残りたまえ
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Usage of か after 出向く
すっきりしたし司令部へ出向くか
From what I understand, this phrase is composed of:
すっきり - Refreshing
した - Did
し - So/and
司令部 - headquarters
出向く - go to/proceed to
か - ?
So the translation would be something along ...
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「ちょっといいだか」と言う表現は茨城弁？
ビーデルさん、ちょっといいだか？(source)
少将、ちょっといいだか？(source)
と、ずっと横で聞いていたシャンロウが手を挙あげて、「ちょっといいだか？」と発言を求めた。(source)
「ちょっといいだか?」「なんです?」ウドリガが出ていこうとした職員を呼び止める。(source)
This seems to contradict what we know about だか: ...
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The difference between ending a sentence with さ or ね
According to this question, ending a sentence with さ is a colloquial way of to make a sentence more playfully assertive. But I noticed that ね is also used to end a sentence and the meaning to me seems ...
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I ask for an explanation about the なの in [祖母は耳が遠い、つまり、耳が少し不自由**なの**だ。] [duplicate]
Is なの considered as a whole (grammatical expression)?
Or is it な ,to make 不自由 an adj, and の seperately?
If 2) is the case, what does の mean here?
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Role of な in といってな
In a sentence from the 犬夜叉 comic book, an old lady from ancient times is speaking about her family. The context is that the speaker mentioned her sister 桔梗 in the previous panel, but the listener didn’...
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Particles じぇ and じょ
I am currently reading the manga 「咲」and the character 片{かた}岡{おか}優{ゆう}希{き} regularly ends her sentences with じょ and じぇ. I will give a few examples (each line isn't related to the next)
学食でタコス買ってきたじぇー
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How to omit and change female end particles?
I'm a little confused. If, for example, a man is singing a song written by a woman, and it has ending particles such a "の" "なの" etc. What are the male equivalent of these, or which ones are to be ...
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Can 「に」, 「は」 and 「を」 be used as 終助詞 (particles at the end of the sentence)?
I would like to understand more about the practical use of the shūjoshi.
な、かしら、かな、の、ぜ、わ、こと were some I found. But I already saw に、は、を being used in the same way. Are they also shūjoshi?
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place+にて background
I was listening to the Final Fantasy X soundtrack the other day, specifically the famous track To Zanarkand which has the Japanese title of ザナルカンドにて and I realized I don't have a clue what function ...
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What is the nuance of か and ね together, e.g. ありませんかね?
A friend approached me asking what some text meant in this game he was playing which said:
スリーサイズを当てるって課題、ありませんかね☆
I feel like I understand the gist of what this means but I've been unable to ...
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Why is が added at the end of この小娘が?
Why is が added at the end of この小娘が? Is something being omitted here? Is it just a figure of speech?
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Is it usual for men to use な instead of ね?
I was surprised when in this video:
https://youtu.be/m9rf63DsN-s?t=2m44s
I heard ごめんな instead of ごめんね.
Is this because men ten to use な instead of ね? So maybe men would say, for example, 怖いな ...
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What is an emphatic particle?
The explanation I have found says that it is a particle on the end of the sentence. However, in the book I am reading (An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese) it is stated that も is an ...
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Difference between か, の and のか
To ask, for example, "Have you already finished doing homework?", is there any difference in using か, の and のか?
もう宿題を終えたか？
もう宿題を終えたの？
もう宿題を終えたのか？
I'm a little bit confused about how many ...
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Can sentence-ending particles be used at the end of an independent clause?
With the sentence:
「僕は今度遠い所へ行くからね、その前一寸お前に遭いに来たよ。」
"I am leaving now to go to a far away place, so before that I came to meet you for a short time."
Assuming I read that right, then it seems like ...
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What does "なのか" mean in 彼女 が 誰 なのか わかりますか?
彼女 が 誰 なのか わかりますか。is a question which has 2 "ka" question markers? or is it 2 questions? (Could it be translated as who is she? you know? )
And what does the "なの" means here? I think I've heard other ...
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Why is から and けど used just about everywhere?
I just saw this sentence in this question:
白と青の皿を洗って。赤いのはいいから。
Wash white and blue plates. Forget red ones.
I don't really understand why is から here. As far as I know, から is used to show a ...
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ending na instead of ne, when to use it?
which connotation gives to a phrase ending with "na" instead of "ne"? is it more informal or what?
Particulary saying,
"soo da naa" instead of "so desu ne"
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Please help me master particles [closed]
What would be your recommendation to dominate the japanese particles? I'm tired of my sentences and my speaking being destroyed by the fault of a little stupid particle. I'm studying the minna no ...
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Meaning of や in 「もうどうだっていいや」
What's the appropriate definition for や in this lyric? Can anyone give similar examples of や? jisho.org has this definition (#4) "interjection expressing surprise" but that doesn't seem ...
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How can よ be used as part of a question?
In the trailer for Fault Milestone One, one character asks another, わたし達．．．帰れるよね．．．？
The translation provided of 'Will we... be able to go back...?' seems straight forward enough, but the use of よ ...
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~んだよなぁ What general meaning/feeling does this give?
I understand this is a combinations of a few ending particles, but I've seen it enough times that I wonder what general feeling a native gets from it.
Examples I remember:
終わったんだよなぁ。
難しいんだよなぁ。
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What does 「例によって例のごとくや」 mean?
I have noticed that there is a definition for 「例によって例のごとし」 in a dictionary online but there is slightly difference in the sentence ending, 「くや」 and 「し」. I am not sure if they have the same meaning.
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Which particle(s) can be used to list nominalised verbs?
Here's the sentence I'm trying to express in Japanese.
"I have changed my life, I've become a cheerful person, all because of him!"
And this is how I would translate it.
僕の人生が変わったのや、明るい人になったのは、...
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What is the meaning of using でば to end a sentence?
I've recently heard a number of sentences where でば is used at the end, seemingly to convince the listener of something. Google has failed me for the most part, aside from one article about particles ...
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Meaning of やな at the end of a sentence
In these examples:
久しぶりやな
いい感じやなぁ
I don't understand what "ya" and "na" mean at the end of a sentence
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What does the sentence ending particle や mean?
Out of all sentence ending particles, I cannot really pinpoint what や means. I don't meet it often (or maybe I don't have enough experience or exposure) and in situations which don't really explain ...
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Help for translation: Object or agent? "お前に" or "お前を And person for "思ってる"
お前に私が殺せると思ってるのか？
I'm not sure about this phrase.
Is correct "お前に" or it's better "お前を". Is object or agent?
And which person is correct for 思ってる? "お前" or "私"
It's a line from a comic I'm trying to ...
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ぜ at the end of sentence?
What's the meaning of ぜ at the end of sentence? Is ぜ a particle?
What's the difference between:
おい、逃{に}げるぜ。
and
おい、逃{に}げる。
I found a couple of explanations on the web but none I could fully ...
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Etymology of もん・もの
How do I make sense of the 終助詞 もん as in
おいしいもん
そうなんだもん
Although I have only heard it in 時代劇 speak, I guess it comes from もの, which I think should be も + の.
But what も can follow the 終止形 and ...
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In what situation can I use ~かい (for interrogative question)?
One day, I asked my japanese friend how I could invite some friends to eat.
He said
"一緒に食べに行くかい？"
I know that we could also say:
行きましょうか（行こうか）？
行きませんか（行かない）？
行きますか（行くの）？
but I got interested ...
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Why is it that the っけ suffix can only be attached to a question-sentence
Why is it that the っけ suffix / け particle (indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information) can only be attached to a sentence when the sentence itself is a question-sentence?
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わ usage at the end of sentences
What is the difference between the "わ" sentence ender used by women in general and the one that is used by both Males and females in the Kansai area?
I've asked my Japanese co-workers about it ...
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Questions with ~か or without: how to choose?
Studying Japanese on my own, I've learned that in order to make a question, you usually add the particle "~か", like this:
今何時ですか。
It's also true that a question can be asked without it, using the ...
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