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助詞「か」. Used with phrases to indicate questions, or with nouns to indicate a list of alternatives.

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What kind of nuance does どうでしょうか have in this senence?

どうでしょうか 職業柄器用だとは思っていますが In the very first panel, upon reading a report, the character comments that the guy has no particular ability. To which the character replies どうでしょうか 職業柄器用なほうだとは思っていますが My ...
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"そのことですか" is this some kind of expression?

よかった。。。って言っていいもんかな I wonder if it's alright to say "I'm glad" 何がです? About what? お前さんは何年追いかけた敵を討ったじゃない You didn't kill the enemy that you chased for years (or you killed the enemy you ...
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Casually asking whether something particular is the reason

Up until now, I've been under the impression that it's acceptable in casual texting or speech to say ○○から?? when you're asking whether ○○ is the reason for whatever the topic of conversation is. For ...
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How is ではいけませんか used in this sentence?

My understanding is that the sentence was reverse so it's あなたと私の出会いのように運命だから、(thought it may be wrong) However I'm not sure how to take ではいけませんか?
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the meaning of てませんか in this sentence

俺は恵子に何も感じてないので 男女の関係は一切ないです I don't have any feelings toward 恵子, so our relationship isn't one of a man and a woman 確かに... That's true/etc. And then he answers: 疑ってませんか? I'm confused by the ...
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Meaning of か when not 'or' statement or question [duplicate]

I was reading NHK and came across this headline 母親監禁し暴行か 同居家族4人が逮捕 草むらに6歳男児の遺体も After putting it into Deepl it came out as Mother held captive and assaulted, 4 family members living together ...
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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 か mean here?

二度と来るかこんな病院!! The character is an old man who is angry. He's not going to go in that hospital once again. Why doesn't he say 来ない?
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Asking questions: ○○か。VS ○○か? VS ○○?

I was wondering if I could get some insight into something that keeps popping up for me. When I ask questions I usually write ○○か and attach a 。 at the end. I know ○○か? is common and I also see ○○? ...
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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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Is it possible to use 丁寧語 before verbs that use a quoting particle?

犬かどうか分からない・犬ですかどうか分からない きっと行くと言っていました・きっと行きますと言っていました いい大学だと思う・いい大学ですと思う Can't find a passage in the textbook that mentions and I'm not sure where to look. I feel like I've definitely heard something ...
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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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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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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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Using か in casual speech

There are definitely many questions about the usage (or lack thereof) of か in casual speech. Although it is relatively common in anime, it sounds harsh, maybe rude in everyday casual speech. Alright, ...
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What is the meaning of 唱えるか

I saw that 唱えるか while watching Little Witch Academia. The dialog is: さっきのを唱えて! (She is talking about 呪文) 唱えるか!!! Is that an abbreviation of 唱えるものか? The context is that one of the characters put the ...
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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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やっぱり <Noun> か - why is it ok to have both?

Example: やっぱり初心者か I'm confused how a sentence can have both: やっぱり, which IIUC suggests that in the end, the speaker found that the things are just as expected か which indicates that the speaker isn't ...
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What does か do in a rhetorical question?

From 『スーツ』 A: ど…どうしたの?(Seeing B is unhappy: "What's going on with you?") B: どうしたのかって?人が死んだ。("You know what's wrong! Someone died!") What I usually hear is that the part before a ...
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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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Verb complement clause type and clause structure?

How can you tell the type of verb complement clause without the accompanying particle? と marks statement clauses or direct quotations and か marks question clauses according to my copy of Practice ...
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difference between のか/か in question clause

i want to settle this once and for all since i cant find any legitimate source about this grammar pattern and i see very different answers online. some say they are interchangable, some say the nuance ...
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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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Is か modifying all three clauses in this sentences?

The following is an excerpt from NHK Easy news article: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10012922471000/k10012922471000.html フランスでは、このウイルスがうつる力の強さや、病気が重くなる可能性、どのくらいウイルスが広がっているかを調べています。 I just ...
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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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Usage of か before を [duplicate]

During my immersion I bumped into this sentence その動作・作用が、どんな場所・場面において行われるかを表わす。 In 場面において行われるかを表わす。what is the role of か specifically?
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What is the difference between ないんですか and んじゃないですか?

Do they both mean "is it not/isn't it"? e.g. Do この車は新しくないんですか and この車は新しいんじゃないですか both mean ”Isn’t this car new?”?
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かも。 か。。。も? n5 lvl learner

G'day guys, i'm back trying to learn a bit of japanese again. haha, i've lost count how many times it is now 😁 変な質問があります。。。 多分 Is there ever a time you can say it like, where there is a slight pause? ...
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is this そうなんだか a valid sentence?

If そうなんですか (sounandesuka) is formal, how come it's not often that I hear of そうなんだか (sounandaka) as casual version or maybe that I just don't hear enough? thanks.
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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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using か with a verb

When attaching か to a verb, for example: 食べるか, it can mean "as if it can be eaten". Or 知るか to mean "as if I know". From what I know about か, it really only a question mark, so how does it get ...
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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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How to express “X (and parenthetically Y)”?

When writing in English, quite often I'll want to express a connection between two noun phrases as “X (or Y)” or “X (and Y)”, where the punctuation adds a notion of “Y is a little beside the point, ...
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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 B. ...
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Is this ことだ ことか? [duplicate]

ツッコミどころはいろいろあるのだが、その筆頭が挑戦する立場のBrock Lesnarに対してチャンピオンの2人(Seth RollinsとKofi Kingston)が「俺のベルトを選べ」と言ってることか。 If I translate this paragraph assuming か doesn't make the statement into a question, it would ...
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Understanding the use of か

僕は山崎先生が昨日何を言ったか忘れてしまった I don't understand what is that か doing in this sentence I mean, It should be an を but there's already one but anyways I don't think this is related to the problem
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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 the ~たものか mean in どうやって彼らを誤魔化したものか?

I stumbled upon this sentence: どうやって彼らを誤魔化したものか──と思案するように、ヒューイは愛想笑いを浮かべた。 and I was told that I should understand it as どうやって彼らを誤魔化せばいいだろうか──と思案するように、ヒューイは愛想笑いを浮かべた。 However I can't find in any ...
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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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What is the function of か between these two verbs? [duplicate]

文章を読んで、何について書いているか考えてください. I think it means, read the sentence(s), and think about something to write. I don't understand why か is between 書いている instead of て-form.
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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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