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How can I tell how much って is quoting?
As mentioned in the comments, if you are speaking and really want to disambiguate you have a couple options, like moving the sentence constituents around or using explicit quotes (although the latter ...
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What does き stand for in 招き猫?
No, き here is a part of the 招き - invitation. It's an okurigana, you can say that it's a reading hint to know that 招 should be read using a kun reading - まねき and not an on reading - しょう.
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Why use に instead of を in 彼に会います/連絡します
会います (or 会う) doesn't take を because it is an intransitive verb, not a transitive verb. Transitive verbs take を, and intransitive verbs don't.
In general, the transitivity of verbs in English and ...
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What is the で part in ではありません？
Good on you for giving Japanese a go!
Ya, Japanese and English are very different, structurally, and some of what's happening in Japanese makes more sense if you know some of the history (well, ...
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What is the function of では in this context?
この身では modifies どうすることもできない. Your citation has the following two sentences, with the first one being a 倒置文 (anastrophe/hyperbaton).
五つの陸を食らい尽くし三つの海を飲み干しても、翼も手も足もないこの身では空だけはどうすることもできない。
Even though I ...
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Can adjectives follow the に particle?
Adjectives are like verbs, in that they 'inflect', that is, have endings that indicate tense (or aspect), just like verbs. So 優しい should be thought of as '[to be] kind', 優しかった, 'was kind'.
に would ...
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