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How do you join たる-adjectives?
Overview: Modern Japanese
There is some brief discussion of these in the English Wikipedia, in the "taru adjectives" section of the "Adjectival noun" article here, and a bit more ...
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What does the に do in 表情から察するに?
That's right. This kind of に won't always be replaceable with と, but in your case it basically is.
From デジタル大辞泉:
［接助］活用語の連体形に付く。
１ あとの叙述の前置きとして続ける意を表す。…と。…ところ。
「考えてみるに庶民のための政治は当分望めそうにない」
The ...
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Is the use of 後で fading from usage in Japanese?
There are several things to consider in answering your question.
An objective answer to your question would require a direct comparison between the total usage of 後で at two different points in time. ...
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JLPT sentence order section
Rather than just solving your exercise (which is not the point of this website anyway) I'll try to give you general suggestions about how to approach this kind of problem.
1. Understand the context.
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Is "断ったとは信じがたい" a nominalization?
To break down, this とは is the quotative particle と, followed by the "topic marker" は. Probably you already know how to use と in sentences like these:
彼が学生だと聞いている。 I've heard he's a student.
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Meaning of 然 in conjunctions and other grammatical words
How I see it, 然 has the same meaning in all cases, but with the different words and particles added after, it get different nuances. Below are my thoughts about it, but this is in no way a "scientific"...
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Use of -です／-ます in the middle of a complex sentence
Basic rules are:
One polite marker per main clause
Beware that it's not "per sentence", since a sentence with coordinate conjunctions is deemed to have multiple top-level clauses tied with them.
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し at the end of the sentence
As you have correctly understood, し after the dictionary form of a copula/verb/i-adjective is usually used to connect two clauses. The first part often works as the reason of the second part. In ...
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How do you join たる-adjectives?
One simple approach is to use かつ, which is one of the stiffest words to say "and" in Japanese. It can be used also with i-adjectives and na-adjectives (see the link), but since most taru-...
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Usage of のに contrary to what I expected
のに is used in the situations below.
簡単なのにできない。 It is easy, but I cannot do that.
勉強するのに必要です。= 勉強するために必要です。 This is necessary to study.
メールしてねって言ったのに。。。 I told you to email me, but... (You did NOT ...
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Meaning of 身もフタもない
Some definitions on the net:
身も蓋もない
言葉が露骨すぎて、潤いも含みもない。
露骨すぎて情緒もない。
直接過ぎて、話の続けようがない。
So it refers to some very explicit/direct/honest expression which may sound harsh or ...
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What is the meaning of すると in this sentence?
The すると here is a 接続詞(conjunction), meaning "and", "then", "and just then", etc.
See this J-J dictionary definition #1 or this J-E dictionary.
どうでしょう literally means "How is ~~?", but here it's an ...
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"But", "but also", "yet", and "and yet" when listing things?
I think you have several options. For example...
けど / けれど / けれども:
「彼は顔は怖いけれど優しい人です。」
「彼女はおとなしいけどはっきりものをいう人だ。」
が:
「彼は[強面]{こわもて}だが心は優しい。」
「彼女はおとなしいが率直な人だ。」
一方(で) / 反面、/ (と)同時に / ～が/...
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Meaning of してならぬ
This sentence is a rhetorical question, "Where is the reason why I must not do it?", i.e., "I'm sure I should be allowed to do it". そうしてはならぬ is more common, but this is not a ...
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傷つけるような真似する meaning?
I don't see how this is anything more than a literal 'Don't do anything that would damage the garden or mansion'. Is 真似 your point of confusion? It not only means 'imitation' but also 'action, ...
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Usage of くせに and わりに in the following sentence
I think you need to look at more than just the English translations to get the way わりに is used.
くせに can be used as a somewhat ruder replacement of のに, so it makes sense to say that here. (の there is ...
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Why is this で wrong, and を preferable? 「信号を左です」
日本語
もうおっしゃったように
「次の信号を左」、「前の角を右」
云々は、肝要なところが抜けているだけだと存じます。
本来なら完全な文書では、
次の信号を左。。。に曲がります
前の角を右。。。に曲がってください
まで言いますが、省略してしまうのが一般的ですね。
下記のように：
「図書館の前を歩く」
「空を飛ぶ」
「曲がる」・「飛ぶ」・「歩く」・「走る」のような「移動性」...
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Did "soshite" develop from an overused "te"-form?
Yes!
From 大辞林
そして
[0]
(接続)
→ そうしてに同じ。
そうして
さう— [0] 【然うして】
(接続)
前に述べた事柄を受けて、それに引き続いて起こる事柄を述べる。それから。「あたりが暗くなった。—大粒の雨が降り始めた」
全件に述べた事柄に後件をつけ加える。その上。さらに。「文学・歴史—教育と幅広く活躍する」
そうして is from そう and して (te-...
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Is there a secret meaning in PPAP song?
I think the song doesn't have any secret meanings.
I saw his interview about the song. He has made songs with a computer. One day he sat in front of a desk in order to make a song. He had already ...
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とは言え conjunction
It's on ALC. It's listed in hiragana because it's a fossilized conjunction.
とはいえ: nevertheless; that being said; be it as it may
Etymologically, this is 'quotative-と' + 'thematic-は' + '已然形 of 言う（言ふ）'...
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と conjunction vs. て-form conjunction?
As for the first group:
私はその人と話すと元気になる。Whenever I talk with that person, I feel uplifted.
私はその人と話して元気になる。I talk to that person and feel uplifted.
A. 私はその人と話す
B. 元気になる
In sentence 1, ...
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Is the use of 後で fading from usage in Japanese?
This sentence sounds unnatural indeed. As you were instructed, either drop the で or use 後に, that will make it more natural.
I am quite sure the sentence has never sounded natural, actually. The ...
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