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Parallel marker (か) "ka" – Repetition & particle elision
When the か particle serves as a parallel/disjunctive marker (A or B = AかBか), is there a strict requirement that it must follow each noun? Or when joining more than two items, should they be replaced ...
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What is the meaning/ usage of か?
I'm a bit confused about the usage of か. I was taught that it means "or" or "whether", so why is this sentence (どの車にするか迷っています) translated as "I was undecided which car to ...
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Meaning of XかXないうちに
ハリーは試してみた...しかし、振り上げるかあげないうちに、老人がひったくってしまった。
Harry gave it (the wand) a try, but no sooner had he raised it than the old man snatched it back.
I read this post on XかXないかのうちに with a translation of &...
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What does っか mean after the imperative form?
I was watching Chainsaw Man and found these sentences.
動けっか?
Or the second sentence below:
Person 1:
殺すのはもったいない顔だけど、死んでちょうだい
Person 2:
胸を揉む前に死ねっかよ
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How to Use a Relative Clause with か in this sentence?
I am currently writing an essay for JPN 401 and I am trying to say this:
While my parents planned on how to take me to college, I was just doing things like watching YouTube videos, and just not ...
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What is the meaning of か in phrases such as ～ばかりか and ～のみか?
I'm studying N2 grammar and I was surprised by the meaning of ばかりか and のみか when I first came across them. E.g:
あの人は、学校の成績がいいばかりかスポーツもできる。
I can see these か forms are the same as ばかりでなく and のみならず (...
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What does ～の為か mean in this sentence?
ちょうど昼過ぎの為か、よく空いていた車内。
According to Jisho.org, 為 means "sake; purpose", "consequence; result", "regarding, concerning", but I can't say what meaning is in this sentence, ...
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Difference between the patterns 何 + COUNTER + か and 何 + COUNTER + も
私は今年何度か海外に行きました。 [SOURCE]
I have been abroad several times this year.
北海道へ何度も行った
I have been to Hokkaido many times.
本を何冊も読む。[SOURCE]
I read several books.
本を何冊か買いました。
I bought some books.
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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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Meaning of か in ーだかわからない
I found this sentence:
その晩、夢を見た。いつの事だかわからない。けれども覚えのある光景があった
What is the meaning of that か in 「事だかわからない」？ Is it there to add a "uncertainty" nuance? or is it something else?
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When can か振り and 振り be used?
I know Ｖ辞書形 + 振り means "pretending to do V", as in
僕を気付かなかった振りをして、僕をただ通り過ぎた。
However, I've recently come to know the expression [知]{し}ったか[振]{ぶ}り, but why is that か there? It seems to have ...
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Role of か in this sentence
I found this sentence in an article about japanese swords
日本刀と他の刀との違いは、どれだけ波紋と鉄が美しいかにこだわっているかです
The translation is
The difference between japanese swords and other swords is how much the ripples ...
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Seemingly non-interrogative use of sentence-ending か
I keep on coming across the particle か at the end of sentences without it having a clear or necessary interrogative nuance.
An example. The 1st Angel in Neon Genesis Evangelion is regenerating itself ...
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How to express alternative options where the options use different verbs
I was about to answer this question when I realised I had a problem.
If I want to say "Please do A or B" where the actions involve different verbs then, hopefully:
本を買うのに店に行くかインターネットを使うかどちらかしてください。...
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Confusion between 誰でも and 誰か
I was practicing and tried to write the following sentence in Japanese: Anyone playing games on PS4 or Switch?
誰でもPS4でゲームをやっていますか。スイッチでゲームをやっていますか。
A few minutes later my sentence was corrected to
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「知るか」 and variant phrases
I didn't find any questions about this, except for this one, but it's not really the same thing.
I've seen the phrase 「知るか」 a few times in anime and manga before and I've always interpreted it as "as ...
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What is the correct question 何だろう or 何だろうか
How to ask a question with だろう in the correct way?
Should I add か in the end?
Like 何だろうか？
I saw a lot of examples and almost always guys omit か in the end. And just say 何だろう；いつだろう。。。
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What does のか mean in this sentence? [duplicate]
In this sentence:
ドアの音に驚いたのか、軽く上体がかしいだ
a door opens, and there is a character, whose upper body is slightly bent forward, startled by the door's sound.
I think の just nominalize ドアの音に驚いた, but I'm ...
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Is ためか the same as ために?
I think this sentence:
あまり日がささまいためか、どれもひょろひょろとした貧弱な木だ
means something like "Since they get too much sunlight, they are shabby trees", but while I know ために I can't find anything about ためか in my ...
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What is the meaning? -- 誰かいないのか
I need your help.
"誰かいないのか"
As far as I understand it, this translates to something like, "I want to know, if there somebody, who is available now"
The questions are:
Is the translation ok?
Could ...
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〜か知らない or 〜か不安だ
I came across the following sentence in an exercise:
インターネットで注文したセーターは、実際に着てみるまでサイズが_____が、ちょうどよかった。
Although only B and D make sense to me, here are the four propositions:
A. 合わなかった
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What is the purpose of the か in this sentence?
「僕達はあなたがどれほど頑張っているか心配です」
I know that 「か」in the middle of a sentence can be used for embedded questions or as "or," but I don't see any of that here.
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Comparing nouns
Good day,
I would like some clarification with regards to comparing nouns. In some references like Minna no Nihongo, the sentence formula would be something like
A と B と + どちら のほうが/が + Adjectiveですか。
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What does からか mean?
I'm translating the following sentence from a book (exact sentence is directly after dialogue in the picture).
興奮からか銀髪の外国人の口調は、いつになく流暢だった。
I have absolutely zero clue what "からか" means in general ...
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Question about the particular use of 'か'
今日かあした来てください。 (Please, come today or tomorrow)
行くか行かないか、わかりません。(Go or not, I don't know)
I guess in these two cases 'か' means 'or', but why is there no 'か' after 'あした'. In example 2 there is a 'か' ...
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か as a suffix to mean "a few": Why is 何__かがVERB not allowed
Here is yet another puzzling sentence for me from a dictionary I am using:
何ページ か 欠けている。 A few pages are missing. (研究社)
My understanding is that while 何ページ ambiguously means "what/which/how many ...
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What's the meaning of the particle のか in this context?
I think the sentence can be understood on its own, but I'm giving some context anyway. Editor and author talk about a character.
Editor: 彼女は作中で優しい子だと言われています。実際そうだと思うんですけど、彼女の優しさって描くのむずかしいと思うんですよ。
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"correct" formation of questions
A comment in some vb.net code is as follows:
現在の時刻が設定時間と一致しているか確認する
Meaning, (the following bit of code) checks if the current time matches the configured one.
According to what I learnt from ...
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When should an embedded question take と?
From this article:
ＮＨＫは６月〜７月、１８歳と１９歳の人に平和についてどう考えているか(*)聞きました。
Between June and July NHK asked 18 and 19 year olds what they thought about peace.
この日を知っているかと聞くと、...
When they were asked if ...
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Grammar question about [sentence]のに
I was asked by my teacher to read a kid friendly manga, something easy to start with.
I am not having issue with the vocabulary and I understand the general gist of a sentence but I am having issue ...
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Can the particle か have an exhortative value?
開戦といきますか！
Judging from the exclamation mark and from the context (a battle immediately starts after the commander of an army says this), I think that in the sentence above か could have an exhortative ...
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Indirect question marked with かが
My questions relate to the following two sentences taken from the website referenced below. The goal of the lesson was to explain the uses of ということ but I'm more concerned with the choice of particles ...
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「か」 or 「と」 as a subordinate clause?
When making a statement like:
I thought I had gone to the cinema.
Do you say:
映画館{えいがかん}に行った{いった}と思いました{おもいました}。
or:
映画館{えいがかん}に行った{いった}か思いました{おもいました}。
And how does it work with other ...
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Use of も after quote particle
電話のベルが聞こえたとき、無視しようかとも思った。
When I heard the phone's bell I wondered if I should ignore it.
We have 無視する = "to ignore",
無視しようか = "will I ignore it?"
無視しようかと思った = "I thought 'will I ignore it'".
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Unsure about this usage of か
I recently encountered this sentence:
床には血痕が残っている。かなり時間が経つのか血が固まっている。
I believe I understand that the second part is saying the blood is dry (or has hardened) because quite some time has passed. I'...
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Is んでしょう（か） grammatical, and what does it mean?
I've learned that んですか can be used to check an educated guess, as in:
(upon seeing someone dragging a piece of luggage)
ねえ、旅行するんですか。
Hey, you're going to travel, aren't you?
I've also ...
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Confusion on usage of か marking alternatives with verbs
Most textbooks note that using か to mark two noun alternatives, the last one can be omitted. However, what about verbs?
Would a textbook sentence such as
今晩の食事はステーキにするか、すしにするかまだ決めていません。
Stay ...
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Is there something omitted after だか in this sentence?
The following paragraph is from page 20 of 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱:
ところで今教室に涼宮ハルヒはいない。いたらこんな話も出来ないだろうが、たとえいたとしてもまったく気にしないような気もする。その涼宮ハルヒだが、四時間目が終わるとすぐ教室を出て行って五時間目が始まる直前にならないと戻ってこないのが常だ。...
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How to use 〜かのよう{に・な・だ}
I understand fine how to use 〜(の)よう{に・な・だ}, but I'm not sure when or how you can add in the か. Here's an example from my book:
４月になって雪が降るなんて、まるで冬が戻って来たかのようです。
How is this different than if it had ...
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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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