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67 Questions

How did 服 come to have meanings related to both “clothing” and “submission”?

Why isn't ある's negative form あらない?

In what ways do Japanese children overgeneralize conjugation patterns?

Why do we believe that 神 is likely to be a loan from Ainu?

Is チェリーボーイ wasei-eigo?

Why does [小っ酷い]【こっぴどい】 mean “very ひどい” rather than “slightly ひどい”?

What was the Japanese word for “clockwise” (時計回り) before clocks were commonplace?

Why do 為る【する】 and 為す【なす】 use the same kanji as 為【ため】?

How do you pronounce “☓☓” as a placeholder?

Does Japanese have free indirect speech?

What is the etymology of the “emphatic” ない?

What does 八 have to do with [八つ当たり]【やつあたり】?

What does セレブ mean these days?

How do you geminate ら-line sounds?

Does Japanese have any infixes?

When was 歴史的仮名遣い standardized?

What do you do if a genkoyoshi line ends with e.g. す。」?

Are there any rules governing voicing in words formed via reduplication?

What's the Japanese word for the stuff after the credits of a movie?

Do native speakers think of 固い・堅い・硬い as homophones, or as the same word?

Can I get a grammatical breakdown of “通りゃんせ”?

How do jokes with “だけに” work?

What is the origin of ゟ (より)?

Which words can be pronounced as either -aai or -awai?

Is there any merit to the claim that Japanese and Tamil are genetically related languages?

Why wasn't 欒 simplified to 栾, when 戀 was simplified to 恋?

How do people in Japan count with their fingers?

What phonetic shorthands (like 〼, 〆) are there in Japanese?

How do you indicate line breaks in a poem when it is written without actual line breaks?

How are 買 and 売 related?