Questions tagged [particle-か]
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
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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.
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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 - ?
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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.
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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
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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。
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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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