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Difference between -ていく and -てくる

What is the difference between 〜となる and 〜になる?

What's the difference between なぜ、どうして and なんで when meaning 'why'?

What does -komu (～込む) at the end of a word mean?

How do we construct sentences ending in わけ?

Kanji for native Japanese concepts: Kun'yomi spanning multiple morphemes

Differences between 度 and 回 when counting occurrences

Difference between にかんして and について?

What's the difference between に and で when speaking of time of an action?

What's the difference between the kanji forms for わかる?

What does さあ (saa) mean?

Differences between いよいよ / やっと / ようやく / ついに and とうとう

Is there an easily accessible list of terms in the Japanese grammar written both in Japanese and English?

Usage of ～じゃん (～じゃない)

Confusion about "Seemingly not ～"

How are 化け物, 妖怪, 幽霊, etc. related to each other?

What is the difference between 様子、状況、状態、and 事情

Two を in a single sentence - how to understand it?

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Difference between the words for "feeling"

Are there cases when two or more particles will occur next to each other without intervening lexical words?

Can someone explain the logic of the grammar "とは限らない"

Differences between それとも・または・もしくは・あるいは

What is the correct usage of 承知しました, 了解です and かしこまりました, the more formal forms of 分かる?

加える/増やす and 加わる/増える or even 増加する/殖/足, various kanji for "adding things"

How do ことになる and ようになる differ? (When ことになる cannot = "It has been decided that")

Comparing 気にする vs. 気になる

Is there a difference between に伴う and を伴う?

Meaning of やな at the end of a sentence

のか - Particle "lamenting reflections on the preceding statement". What?