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Omission of く in negative form of い-adjective
I learnt that the negative form of い-adjective is: remove the trailing い, then add くない. Example: 赤い→赤くない
However, I've been watching Japanese livestream and following her twitter. Sometimes, she omit ...
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Is accent position predictable for -i verbs in Osaka/Kansai?
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While I'm not especially confident about the reliability of my sources (Wikipedia (0) (1) (2) and some guys' personal websites), and it's possible that I transcribed some of these wrong, ...
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What is 寒ぶ寒ぶ? (in following sentence)
まず癪に障るのは、同じ人間とは思えぬその鋼のごとき肉体であった。目方はおよそ喜惣次の倍はあろうか。「おお、寒ぶ寒ぶ」と胴間声を張り上げながら湯舟に躍りこめば、湯の半分くらいが溢れ出る騒ぎであった。
Google/dictionary search gave me nothing... Is it same as e.g. here?
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I-Adjectives in the Kagoshima dialect
In this Wikipedia article, in the table of i-adjectives, I noticed that some of these adjectives were completely different in the Kagoshima dialect compared to Standard Japanese in a way that these ...
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