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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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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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What does いけると mean?
This いける (potential form of いく) means "will work out" or "will do", referring to whatever the first speaker is trying to achieve in this situation.
そう言えばいけると思ってるな。いいけど...
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Clarifications on using ていく with verbs - using 着る as example verb
The answers are all no. 着ていく just means to put it on and go, to go wearing it or to put on clothes one after another whether you change it every time or put on another over the current one.
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past verb + ところだった= Major difference from るところだった?
The plain use of ～る・～たところだ・だった ignoring it's use with conditionals for the moment, is simply a means of setting the relative time of an event.
するところだ 'is about to [just going to] do'
するところだった 'was ...
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What is the actual nuance of the verb に映る
～に映る is a phrase that means "to appear (in someone's eyes) as ～" or "to strike someone as ～". One of the basic meanings of 映る is "(for an image) to be projected (on a screen, ...
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Why does Bunpro call ないか incorrect here?
I agree with naruto that this is not incorrect, but is inappropriately blunt.
We can understand this without reference to historical Japanese, and thinking about language in general terms. Cross-...
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Why does Bunpro call ないか incorrect here?
It's true that you should avoid using ～ないか in ordinary conversation. However, this is not because it's technically incorrect but because it's overly blunt.
Grammatically speaking, the following ...
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How does やがる work with なる?
The verb やがる follows another verb and typically indicates disdain for the doer. However, sometimes it attaches to a verb that has no particular doer like in your case, and then it simply adds speaker'...
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What does にだけにはなるか (vulgar text warning/nsfw) mean?
I think those four lines form one single sentence. Anyway, the underlying expression is 言いなりになる, the combination of noun 言いなり + particle に + verb なる, and other particles (だけ, は and か) are added to it ...
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What does this use of まいな mean?
な is the particle for inviting confirmation; ～まい is a borrowing from literary Japanese that has the force of ～ないだろう, so here おるまい is formally equivalent to おらないだろう. This latter form may not be used ...
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