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Does 罪 in 罪を受ける literally mean "crimes"?
I find it weird, too, and from what I gathered, most contemporary speakers don't understand 罪 as "punishment".
Apparently it used to mean both things, but today many people would exclusively ...
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Words for closing
閉園, 閉館 and 閉店 are all very common, and they are chosen according to the type or name of the facility:
閉園: open-air (amusement) park, zoo, garden
閉館: (indoor) department store, shopping mall, museum, ...
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What does the word 「でやんして」 mean?
Yes, it is a dialect, and it is an old one. A quick equivalency would be:
でやんす = で ございます
でやんして = で ございまして
我々にとっては重大問題でやんして = 我々にとっては重大問題でございまして
Here's a good description from the home page of Sano ...
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添{そ}い遂{と}げる (soitogeru) = "to be with" or "to remain married to for life"?
添い遂げる is quite a strong verb, as 遂げる has a nuance of "to finish" or "until the end". Depending on the context, the literal meaning of "until death" may not be that ...
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Can't understand そんな労カかけないでもらいたいなっていうね
You are breaking the sentence in the wrong place. It's not かけないでも + らいたい, it's かけないで + もらいたい.
Things you may already know:
Adding たい to the masu-stem of the a verb means 'want to verb'. The verb here ...
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How can I express the idea of "lurking" in a server?
ロムる (from "ROM; read-only member/memory") is a piece of internet slang that is never used in formal settings. It's one of the "2ch用語" that are not commonly seen these days. Most ...
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涙活 = "monetizing the tears"?
Difficult to tell without the full context.
I can't find any examples of "涙活" being used for anything other than "crying intentionally as a way to relieve stress".
However, I could ...
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涙活 = "monetizing the tears"?
To my knowledge, 涙活 just refers to having a good cry (and feeling better afterwards).
According to Wikipedia, this seems to be a word coined by a certain person around 2010, but it has never been a ...
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方 as a noun with a relative clause. What does it mean?
There is indeed an implicit comparison, though not with other aspects of the city but rather with other cities. I'd say a better translation would be "That city is on the safer side" or &...
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Meaning and pronunciation of 通目
The word 通目 is the combination of the counter 通{つう} for letters, messages, entries, etc. (see entry 2. here), and the ordinal number suffix 目{め} (see entry 17. here):
5通の手紙。Five letters.
5通目の手紙。The ...
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What does 決め決め mean?
This 決め決め (also written as キメキメ in katakana) is from 決める in the following sense:
決める
Ichidan verb, Transitive verb
6. to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
決める
６ かっこうよくぴったりした服装をする。「...
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