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What does からか mean?
(I know what "から" and the sentence-ending "か" mean, but not this)
Yes, it's this から followed by this か. から here is a reason/cause marker. か is a question marker but is used like "presumably" or "...
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Is it a right interpretation of the line of this Japanese song?
を is always an object marker in modern Japanese. It never replaces personal pronouns. Where did you see such a rule?
noun + を at the end of a sentence is a fairly common device found in lyrics, ...
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What is function of から in conditional statement?
Here are the original lyrics:
夜が明けたら一番早い汽車に乗るから
切符を用意してちょうだい
私のために一枚でいいからさ
今夜でこの街とはさよならね
わりといい街だったけどね
The から in the first line simply means "because", and the first line works as the ...
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What does からか mean?
You should think of this like から+か. If there wasn't a か, the following would just be a statement of a fact. The から is used to give the reason for the unusual fluency of the foreigner (in this case it ...
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Why is there a から after 話題, and what does ラインナップ mean?
This から is "from (such-and-such a 話題)" or "after (such-and-such a 話題)". This 話題 is modified by everything from 女友達 to という. And ラインナップ refers to the apps of the writer's own smartphone (you can tell ...
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What does からって mean?
世界に出たからってファイナルまで残んなきゃ稼げねーし
Just because I entered the world doesn't mean I can earn money without making it to the finals.
から: because
って = といって = "even though", "however" in this case. 明鏡 defines ...
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てからに in 大学を出てからにしたら meaning
Is it に indicating time?
No. ～にする has several meanings, and here it means "to choose~~" or "to decide on~~", not "to do at [point in time]". The に here cannot be "...
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Differences between 一緒に行ってくれればいい, 一緒に行ってくれればいいから, 一緒に行ってくれればその方がいいから
They wouldn't be interchangeable.
一緒に行ってくれればその方がいいから
if you (thankfully for me) go with me, it's better
一緒に行ってくれればいい
一緒に行ってくれればいいから
it'll be enough/nice if you (thankfully for me) go ...
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Temporal ambiguity on mochiko packaging
When a series of actions is listed with the verbs in the ～て conjunctive form, the list can parse out to "[VERB], then [VERB], then [VERB]..."
Years ago, a friend of mine at work laughed after getting ...
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Having trouble making sense of the sentence "解いてから帰らないとすっきりしないんだ"
The と is a normal conditional と.
The scope of the negation (～ない) is the whole 解いてから帰る, not just 帰る.
I think you can think of it this way:
［解いてから帰(る)］+ ないと、すっきりしないんだ
→ If I don't do "解いてから帰る"...
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Understanding じゃから
のじゃから is the exact same as のだから; in certain dialects, the plain copula is じゃ rather than だ. This is also used in fictional 'role language' to mark a character as elderly or rural.
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Meaning of first "から" in "私からちゃんと話しとくから"
This から is the same から that indicates origin or source, which often translates to the English word from.
Here 私から means 私 is the initiator of the action of "talking to her properly".
In this case, ...
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What does どくしんでハンサムだからね mean?
独身{どくしん} で ハンサム だから ね
Without further context it's hard to tell who is the subject/object of this phrase, but it shall be read:
It's because だから
someone
is single and... どくしんで
handsome ハンサム
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Can から mean それでは?
According to 明鏡国語辞典:
から 🈔〘接続助詞〙
❻《文末に用いて》注意・警告・慰めなどの気持ちを表す。
「先生に言いつけてやるから。」「私もう帰るから。」「心配しなくていいから。」
The conjunctive particle から at the end of a sentence can express a feeling of 注意・警告・慰め (...
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Why から with 始まる?
Both ～に始まる and ～から始まる are possible; it's just that they emphasize different things.
Xに始まる emphasizes the precise time that something begins, with the focus being on that specific point. The ...
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～のは～から。 sentence structure
Yes, だ/です at the end of a sentence is often omitted. Do you know a rhetoric device called 体言止め ("noun-stop")? The omission of だ after から has the same basic effect (making the sentence ...
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What is the exact meaning of から in this sentence?
That から is 'because'.
There are actually two sentences here: 大丈夫。and みんな支えてくれるから。
The normal single sentence form would be みんな支えてくれるから大丈夫 "everyone is supporting you so it's okay". But in ...
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Does Kara have two meanings: since, because and from?
I'm going take a different tack on this from everyone else.
If you go back to earlier Indo-European languages such as Latin, but more so like Sanskrit, you see a very similar use of the ablative case ...
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Please help me with this sentence: 手術台から...噛みました
I'll add to l'électeur's answer. As mentioned in the answer, it means "to fluff a line". It cannot be interpreted as any other type of mistake outside of verbally messing up a line. When I see an ...
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