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Iterative / repetitive る evolving from classical 連体形【れんたいけい】
This is somewhat related to the discussion of classical auxiliary verb ふ, mentioned in the answer to snailboat's question, What is the わ in 忌まわしい and 嘆かわしい?.
Another apparent iterative / repetitive ...
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What does ギスる mean?
Conversation goes:
A: まだひきずっていたのか
B: え、お前忘れたの？ギスってたの俺だけ？びっくりする
B: 次はねぇぞ
The ギス I know means having a cold atmosphere or strained relationship. But here, I am not sure I get what it means.
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When do we use 〜どおりに instead of 〜のとおりに after nouns?
I noticed that in the case of nouns, we can use either of these:
Ｎのとおりに
Ｎどおりに
But this seems to be case-specific.
When or in which circumstances do we use the latter?
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What is the difference between といったところです and というところです?
銀行に変化を促しているのがタイの中央銀行です。 日本で言えば、日銀が腰を上げて、変革の旗振り役をしているといったところです。(source)
Could we replace といったところです by というところです here? If yes, what would be the difference? If not, why?
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Do speakers that distinguish all four yotsugana in speech preserve the non-rendaku ぢ and づ in writing?
According to Wikipedia (and some posters here), Kagoshima Japanese resists the じ・ぢ and ず・づ mergers, much in the same way that various English dialects retain differences between words like meet and ...
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Why 気にされる instead of 気にする?
These two characters are discussing ヒューバート in the below, and about how he lacks self awareness. However I am not sure why 気にされる was used instead of 気にする here. I know that される can be used as an ...
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Are both of these correct sentences: 「ここに住所を書いてくださいますか？」「ここに住所を書いてくださいませんか？」？
I believe 「ここに住所を書いてくださいますか？」 means “Could you please write the address here?”
And 「ここに住所を書いてくださいませんか？」 means “Would you please write the address here?”
An exercise I’m doing shows the second sentence ...
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How can I differentiate if a word is (either fully or preferentially) used for spoken or written language?
Sorry if this has been answered before, but I couldn't find it.
I understand that when the on'yomi reading is used, this is associated with words with a more "literary" feeling or with written usage. ...
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"~Ni" or "~De"?
Should I use (に or で) for the following lines? Since they are time periods, I thought に would be correct, according to
Times
The particle ni is usually used with times:
Go-ji ni ...
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What is the difference between に伴って and と共に？
Can somebody explain to me the difference between と共{とも}に and に伴{ともな}って？ I believe that sometimes they can be used interchangeably, but not always. Moreover, their basic meanings also seem to differ. ...
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のに and のが. How do they differ in the context below?
この本は読むのに簡単だ。This book is easy to read.
この本は読むのが簡単だ。This book is easy to read.
I was wondering if anyone could explain to me how these two readings differ in nuance?
When there is a sentence like ...
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Casual Speech Particles in Classical Japanese
I'm writing a simple Japanese skit for my class and there is a place where an ancient samurai needs to speak a few sentences of Classical Japanese.
I can mostly make the sentences, but it seems weird ...
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Do loanwords have quasi-phonemic vowel reduction?
I've started to notice this, and I'm not sure whether my eyes are deceiving me or not, but it seems as if several, but not all loans have a high statistical probability of vowels being reduced/...
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Pitch accent for ないで and なくて
When I listen to Japanese people speak, I usually hear them say ないで{HLL} and なくて{HLL}, with the pitch drop always placed on な, no matter the verb. But I might just be hearing things wrong.
However, I ...
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What phonetic shorthands (like 〼, 〆) are there in Japanese?
I recently learned that the symbol 〼, called 枡記号【ますきごう】, can be used as a phonetic shorthand for ます, as in 豆腐あり[〼]【ます】. In a similar vein, I am aware that 〆 is used as a shorthand for しめ in 〆切【しめきり】 = ...