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Why was romaji used when chatting in a video game? [duplicate]
I was watching a japanese stream of a game, and when typing in chat, they were all typing with romaji? Why is that? All there usernames were also all in romanji.
ありがとうございます
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how did 二段 verbs shift into 一段?
How was the process? i know that in 鎌倉時代, the 終止形 and 連体形 started to be used interchangeably + only the 連体形 form survived and replaced the 終止形.
But here is where i get lost, lets say the classical 下二段 ...
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What does ところ in the paragraph below mean?
三村株式会社より、「はさみSB—A」に欠陥が発見されたため全製品を回収し、交換を行うとの発表がありました。
会計課で調べたところ購入記録がありましたので、三村株式会社に交換を依頼します。
I looked it up in the 大辞泉 dictionary and found a sentence that looked like this:
調べたところでは、そんな事実はない
The ...
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meaning of 百日のつもり
I am reading a book and found this paragraph that I don't understand
小生の命も後百日のつもりその間身のすりきれるほど働くつもり
I am getting that he intends to live what is left of his life working until his last breath.
I am not ...
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What are rules and limitations for using small katakana vowels? [duplicate]
The textbooks and materials I found on the internet typically provide several examples, but I have never seen a full list of possible combinations.
In particular, can the following combinations be ...
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a question about に in the paragragh below
私たちは働くとき、何らかの社会的役割を担（注1）っていて、その役割に応じた結果が求められます。そして、期待に応えたときに得られるものが報酬（注2）や自身の成長です。要するに、私たちは働くとき「得る」前に求められているものを「与える」ことになります。仕事の本質（注3）は得ることではなく、自分に求められているものを人に与える、すなわち「人の役に立つ」ことなのです。
I am confused by ...
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Are the articles of the website “言葉の違いが分かる読み物” written by one person or multiple people?
There is a website called “言葉の違いが分かる読み物” (English translation: “Reading Material Where You Can See The Difference Between Words”).
As the website title suggests, it has articles that explain the ...
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Is また燕木に帰るとや思い出す grammatically well formed?
I am a beginning Japanese learner attempting to construct a haiku. This is my attempt:
また燕 木に帰るとや 思い出す。
Does the と や construction make sense here?
The intended meaning is:
Again, the swallow // ...
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I don’t understand the meaning of “冗談 通じんじゃん” in below sentence
The whole sentence is:
“笑える! コタってつまんない男だと思ってたけど案外 冗談 通じんじゃん。”
I checked on the internet and found “冗談が通じる” which means He or she gets the joke. But in the sentence “冗談 通じんじゃん”. the word “じゃん” is ...
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When speaking openly with a group of people, is it okay to speak casually with some and formally with others?
Say that I'm having lunch with my buddy outside, and my boss comes over and starts talking to me. Obviously, with my boss, I'll talk with proper keigo and stuff. But in front of my boss, am I allowed ...
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How to say [Can you buy this for me?] in polite Japanese
Usually I always said [注文してくれてできませんか」
When I ask someone to buy some item for me. But I always wonder if that sentence is right.
Especially if the one I ask is my 社長. So I wonder how to ask for ...
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What does さわれないというか mean?
I'm a huge Slam Dunk fan and I was reading an interview from Inoue about the new voice actors for the movie "The First Slam Dunk". I have some problems with this sentence, especially the ...
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Understanding Obfuscated Song Lyrics in 夢うつつ - Dream
I have previously asked a question regarding what is being said in this song, but it did not follow guidelines since I was not asking anything specific. However, in consulting with my teacher on the ...
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what is the meaning of "みたいなな" in below sentence?
I'm watching a Japanese TV drama. I don't understand the meaning of"みたいなな" in this conversation :"お前らみたいなな チャラチャラウニャ~みたいのがな世の中ダメにすんだ分かったか-?"
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Confused about this conjugation of 忘れる [duplicate]
In KICK BACK, there is a line of the song that goes なんか忘れちゃってんだ. I'm confused specifically about the 忘れちゃってんだ. I haven't really seen this sort of conjugation before. I'm thinking it's possibly 忘れる + ...
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Where can I find an exhaustive list of Ryūkyūan personal names?
According to Wikipedia, "Okinawan name", speaking about the warabi-naa 童名, the primary personal names of Ryūkyū:
A set of warabi-naa appeared in the very beginning of recorded history and ...
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Don't know how should I understand the meaning of this sentence correctly, since there are too many meanings for 感じすぎる and しっかり
感じすぎるとは言っても、しっかりと腰振りは続けられている。
I'm reading an eroge, and there are too many meanings for "感じすぎる/kanjisugiru" and "しっかり/ shikkari" , so I'm not sure how should i understand this ...
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Understanding how 〜にもかかわらず can connect to a verb
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言語は時代と共に変わるにもかかわらず、言葉遣いに気をつけないと、「日本人じゃない」と思われてしまうこともこの発表の結果を考えると、お分かりいただけるでしょう。
Consider the first part:
言語は時代と共に変わるにもかかわらず
which I'm assuming means
Despite language changing over time, ...
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The meaning of 「春夏秋…」 with particles in 「夕焼けの歌」 song lyrics
The lyrics of 夕焼けの歌 by Masahiko Kondo contains the following parts:
ゆらゆらとビルの都会に広がる
あの頃と同じ 夕焼け空
クソ食らえとただ
アスファルト 蹴りつけ
ああ春夏秋…と
ゆらゆらと俺の頬に焼きつく
あの頃と同じ 夕焼け空
土下座したいほど
愛が欲しいだけ
ああ春夏秋…も
I have 2 questions ...
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〜のがほしい instead of 〜たい
To start with, I'm not asking about how 〜たい and 〜ほしい (and their derivative forms, like 〜てほしい, たがる, etc etc) structures work. I want to know whether is natural/grammatically correct to say, for example,...
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The meaning of むんわりと when you smell something [duplicate]
Hope someone can explain to me its meaning in this sentence
むんわりと、濃い香りが鼻孔をくすぐる。
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What is the difference between どう and どういう? (e.g. どういう意味)
I'm researching the word 意味 (meaning/translation) and how to ask "What do you mean?". It's translated as 「どういう意味？」and not 「どう意味？」. Why is it the former and not the latter? Would the latter ...
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Meaning and usage of ～かとなれば
I've found the grammar pattern ～かとなれば in this site:
https://www.vnjp.org/grammar/detail/293
https://www.vnjp.org/grammar/detail/294
and I would like to know what does it mean as well as its usage.
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what is the function of "口惜しゅうて" in below sentence?
I searched for the word "口惜しゅうて" on the internet but I found "口惜しい".
I want to know how "口惜しい" changes to "口惜しゅうて" in the below sentence:
"おぬしの生きざま,...
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is the old perfective suffix り connecting to 命令形 because there were 2 types of e?
As i have heard, there were 2 types of e's, one got creating through connecting "a" + "i" (which i think is the e for 已然形) and one through "i + a" (which i think is the e ...
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Correct interpretation of "桁1個上へ" in following context
Reviewing the lyrics of a song I found a really confusing phrase: "大切片手に桁1個上へ".
As far as I know, "大切片手" is refering to one/a presious hand. Most likely the one the author is in ...
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Meaning of 〜はしまいか、〜はすまいか、〜ていはしまいか and 〜ていはすまいか
I've found a couple of times while reading novels the grammar patterns
Verb stem + はしまいか/はすまいか
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Verb て + いはしまいか/いはすまいか
However, I googled these patterns, but I couldn't find any website explaining ...
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言わば、言うなれば、言うならば and 言ってみれば
Do all the expressions 言わば、言うなれば、言うならば and 言ってみれば mean "so to speak" and can be used interchangeably or is there any difference between them?
I can't get very well the differences in nuances ...
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Understanding 「その中で私たちが思っていたのと違った答えだったのは。。。」
Consider the following:
その中で私たちが思っていたのと違った答えだったのは、「敬語はフェイクで、敬語を使わなかったら、人ともっと近くなれる」というのでした。
I'm having trouble understanding the beginning of this sentence. According to an auto-translator, it means ...
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What is "ぷれせんとふぉーゆーさん" exactly referring to？
I was looking at the lyrics of a song and there's a part of it that says the following:
いびつな形でもつたわるかい？
昔からかわらない愛
きっとかわりはしない
ぷれせんとふぉーゆーさんたから
そんなの信じてたんだなー
「まま」はいなくて
「ぱぱ」だけぱぱすき
なんてゆあないだけ
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Meaning of いまい in this sentence [duplicate]
こんな嵐の中、まさかここまで郵便を届けにくるやつはいまい、と思っているにちがいない。
He was surely thinking that nobody would deliver mail here in a storm like this. (my TL)
I cannot work out what いまい is doing in this sentence.
I've come ...
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I cannot understand sentences in this paragraph
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感動は、自分の力だけでなく、親の力だったり、友だちの力だったり、ほかの人の力によってもつくられています。子どものときから大事に育てられたとか、自分を包んでくれる街がきちっと大人たちによって美しく保たれていたとか、そういう周囲の力でつくられている場合もあるわけです。
そうした感動の思い出を大切に持ち帰ってきて、いまあるものとコラボレーションする（注2）と、新商品が生まれます。...
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Conjugation of the Auxiliary Verb 得る When it's Read as うる
I didn't see any other threads addressing this.
I'm learning 得る as an auxiliary verb to express possibility, as in 起こり得る (起こりえる). From what I've read, 得る is typically read as うる if it follows the 連用形 ...
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Help with translation ああじゃないこうじゃない
I was watching a Japanese news clip, one person on the street says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgY1BPzNQqY
15:39-15:47
今日はしんどいなと思って、(夕食は)お弁当屋さんでと思って、いっぱいのってるものをみんなで、ああじゃないこうじゃない言いながら食べたいなと思って。
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I cannot understand 才能には副作用
This line is from 宇多田ヒカル's song 君に夢中, but this simple sentence is hardly understandable to, me even associating it with context, because the sentence lacks essential parts that usually make up a ...
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Writing explanatory sentences and use of を
I was attempting to write the following sentence in Japanese:
That should help stop the infection that is causing the cough.
I came up with:
それは咳をさせる感染を止めることを手伝うべきです。
But it got corrected to:
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What does 他人の目にも楽しく mean?
幸福というものについて、これだといい切れる考えはまだ私も持っていないが、私は「会社での仕事も楽しく、家庭での生活も楽しい、つまり一日二十四時間を楽しく過ごすこと」が幸福だと思っている。言葉はすこぶる（注6）平凡だが、この内容は非凡だと自負している（注7）。それと、自分の幸福な状態が「他人の目にも楽しく、心も楽しませる」ものでありたいとも私は思う。
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What does this means in this context? 「ぁんだよ、手応えねぇなぁ～……」( A girl said this after she killed a demon and saved MC)
Context: MC is facing against 3 monsters/ demons at night, and he's about to lose the battle. But then a girl rush in , killed 2 demons with her spear and saved MC. He's very surprised ad don't know ...
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じゃない and its uses [duplicate]
In a script I'm translating, two kids are reenacting The Little Mermaid at a park and then one of the kids's mom walks up and says: ちょ……ちょっとふたりとも何をやってるの！？ビショビショじゃない！
According to DeepL, this じゃない isn'...
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Confused my the meaning of this character's thought when he's facing against a monster 脳味噌の端っこの方で状況を整理する
A character is facing against a monster, and I don't understand 1 part of his thought here. Hope someone can explain to me its correct meaning.
脳味噌の端っこの方で状況を整理する (my guess: " I'm analyzing the ...
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Japanese hashi (はし) (箸) and Chinese zhu4 (箸) (extra dot above sun character)
I was wondering why the Japanese character for hashi (はし) (箸), seems to have an extra character stroke when compared to the Chinese character zhu4 (箸).
In both Japanese and Chinese, this character, ...
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What is the meaning of "良いん in this sentence?
”あと何センチ近づけば良いんだろう”
What is the meaning of "良いん” in this sentence?
I know that it means "good", but this sentence is translated as:
"How many centimeters closer should I get?"
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Are 腹違い (harachigai) and 種違い (tanechigai) rude terms to use when referring to half-siblings?
腹違い and 種違い are ways to refer to siblings born of different mothers/fathers. Are these terms rude/disrespectful? Or are they about as innocuous as saying "half-siblings"?
Also, I could open ...
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Meaning of 途方もなくみすばらしい小屋 [closed]
その岩のてっぺんに、途方もなくみすばらしい小屋がちょこんと乗っている
A preposterous, splendid shed is perched on top of that rock. (my literal TL)
Perched on top of the rock was the most miserable little shack you could imagine. (...
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Particles can be put before copula だ?
In the anime Relife ep1, I met this line "酔ってた勢いでだ".
I don't know what is で here.
Is it an abbreviation, dialect, or particle? Or this is a casual speech that is ungrammatical?
If it is a ...
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What is the word for a shop that sells small electronic parts (such as LEDs, resistors, transistors, breadboards, etc.)?
I want to find stores in Tokyo that sell articles mentioned in the title.
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why is the 未然形 for 形容詞 in classical japanese not written/in brackets in most conjugation tables?
Took from google some of the tables, some have it in brackets, some list it, some of them straight up remove it, why is that?
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What does this expression means about a person ? 「……やけに他人事だな、貴様は」
Context: A clan leader wanted to keep MC in her family/clan because she thinks MC is a skilled warrior and can use him. But her subordinate disagreed and wanted to kick MC out, since she's worried ...
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Asking about invitation/desire in basic tense, vs. specific patterns?
When it comes to asking questions, specifically about invitation and want/desire, I've come across sentences that avoid using specific patterns (ませんか/ましょうか, or たい/ほしい), and just use basic future tense ...
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what is the exact meaning of "部長が自分のミス俺のせいにしゃがってさ" in below sentence
I don't understand exactly the meaning of "部長が自分のミス俺のせいにしゃがってさ"
the whole sentence is: 今日もさ 部長が自分のミス俺のせいにしゃがってさ冗談じゃ ないよ お前 部下をかばってこそ 上司だろ おい!
the meaning in the text is: today, the head of ...
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