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- Japanese Language Stack Exchange
Q A for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Japanese language
- What are the differences between - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
The Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries can mostly be described as phonetic But there are two exceptions, the two pairs of syllables modified to be voiced with the dakuten diacritic which t
- What exactly is this - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
I keep running into this symbol: ※ What is it, exactly? How is it used? According to this Wikipedia link on Japanese typographic symbols, this ※ is called 米{こめ} or 米印{こめじるし} It is used in notes
- How do you say the in japanese?
That's the case in Japanese: the articles "the" and "a" do not exist In order for you to think about a sentence in those terms, you would have to deduce the article from context I found a little example here: Definiteness of Nouns In Japanese, the definiteness and plurality of a noun is implicit
- When to use - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
When asking for something I seem to hear sentences end in both ください (kudasai) and お願いします (onegaishimasu) Is there a difference and how do I know when to use which?
- how can I say what about. . . ? in Japanese?
I was writing to my japanese friends, and I got some doubts Hope it wasn't asked here before How can I express "what about " in Japanese? Particularly: What about having some breaks? What
- adjectives - Difference between 大変 and 難しい - Japanese Language Stack . . .
What is the difference between 大変{たいへん} and 難しい{むずかしい} which can both mean difficult In which context should i use one or the other? Thanks in advance
- words - 寝る vs. 眠る, whats the real difference? - Japanese Language . . .
What's the real, definite difference between 寝ねる and 眠ねむる? I know they both mean " sleep ", but also that each carries some additional (sometimes, figurative) meanings Where do the meanings overlap? In what scenarios are they interchangeable?
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