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[ { "body": "作り方法 is simply incorrect. By definition, 連用形 is\n\"connect(連)-verb/adjective(用)-form(形)\", and thus it never modifies a noun\narbitrarily. 方 in 作り方 is a suffix rather than an ordinary noun. 方 (かた) is not\nan independent word meaning \"method\"; it always has to follow a 連用形 to make\nsense.\n\nHowever, [a 連用形 sometimes also works as a\nnoun](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/32311/5010), and [two nouns can be\ndirectly combined to form a compound noun with a fixed\nmeaning](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/27485/5010). So there are\ncompound nouns such as 置き時計 (\"clock\"), 泣き顔 (\"crying face\"), 食べ物 (\"food\"), 入れ歯\n(\"denture\"), 吹き矢 (\"blowgun\") and 押し花 (\"pressed flower\"). Basically these are\nfixed compounds that typically have their own entry in dictionaries. You\ncannot construct similar ones arbitrarily.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-10T23:10:48.537", "id": "95762", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-10T23:28:32.903", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-10T23:28:32.903", "last_editor_user_id": "5010", "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95756", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "They used the loanword \"コルセット\", so it most likely literally means \"corset\".\nWhich means, the speaker is feeling uncomfortable due to wearing a corset and\nhaving eaten too much.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-12T20:51:57.990", "id": "95784", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-12T20:51:57.990", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54233", "parent_id": "95758", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "With the clarification of Leebo, I was able to reach this understanding:\n\n(1) The 易い/難い adjectives should be attached to verbs that are conjugated in\nthe Base 2 form (i.e. ending with the vowel -i) (This is the same Base to\nwhich is attached ます).\n\n(2) Ichidan verbs do not have a Base 2 form, so 易い/難い should follow directly\nthe stem of the verb, which corresponds to what we get when we remove the -る\nfrom the Dictionary form of the verb (or -ます when the verb is conjugated in\n-ます)\n\n(3) So the two Ichidan verbs from the examples, when inside a [doing something\nis easy/hard] pattern should indeed be 覚え and 答え (覚える/覚えます, 答える/答えます), while\nthe other two Yodan verbs should be 話し, 読み (Base 2 of 話す and 読む)\n\nThis answer is heavily based on (Lampkin 1995).", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-11T06:32:29.670", "id": "95765", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-11T06:32:29.670", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41663", "parent_id": "95764", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "> Is Miku's seniour colleague really referring to Miku so differently from\n> addressing Miku?\n\nIn short, that sounds about right. A third person's presence can affect how\nsomeone refers to another person like that.\n\nAlso, honorifics can be used performatively, like \"I'm intentionally using\nthis version of honorifics to present myself more distant/closer to you in\nthis occasion\".\n\nTo distinguish one interpretation from another you would need a lot of\ncontext.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-11T13:25:26.747", "id": "95767", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-11T13:25:26.747", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95766", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "The first part of the sentence is expected to describe a **change** that makes\nit possible for what is described in the second part to happen. お金の準備ができる is\nsuch a change.\n\nThough the same verb is used, 車の運転ができる doesn’t describe a change but a state,\nor a static property of someone. The sentence would sound more natural if you\nconvert it into a change like this.\n\n> 車の運転ができるようになってからでないと、新しい事業に取りかかれない。\n\nいいアイデアがある is also a state. You would have to make it a change. Here is one way\nto do it.\n\n> いいアイデアを思いついてからでないと、新しい事業に取りかかれない。", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-11T14:28:17.520", "id": "95769", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-11T14:28:17.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\"In that case\" / \"if so\":\n\n * **なら** (colloquial)\n * **だったら** (colloquial)\n * **でしたら** (politely colloquial)\n * **であれば** (formal, bookish)\n\nMuch like だから or でも which you may know, the conjugated forms of the copula だ\ncan function as independent conjunctions (not conjunctive particles) at the\nbeginning of a sentence, referring to the context before. It may sound\nsurprising, but this is perfectly grammatical. The politeness or other nuances\nall conform to normal grammar that you need to adjust to.\n\n> レストランに行きたいですか？なら、予約しておきますよ。", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-12T13:22:00.987", "id": "95780", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-12T16:15:16.897", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-12T16:15:16.897", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "7810", "parent_id": "95770", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "> Question: is the usage of で here grammatically incorrect?\n\nAs far as 形容動詞 (な adjective) is concerned, yes.\n\nThat said,\n\n> 高速で車を動かしてください\n\ncan be a grammatically correct sentence (if a bit an awkward one), if you see\n高速 as a noun, short for 高速道路, and で as a location marker. That is different\nfrom the adjective 高速な.\n\nな-adjective's で-form, or continuative form (連用形), is used in different\ncontext. For example, you use it when you connect two or more adjectives as in\n高速で正確な作業 (\"fast and precise work\"). The examples given in the question are all\nadverbial.\n\nIn general, many nouns and na-adjectives share some of the forms\nsuperficially, but need to be parsed differently depending on the context. 自然\nis another example that can be a noun and the stem of a na-adjective.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-11T23:17:47.867", "id": "95772", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-12T02:02:36.493", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-12T02:02:36.493", "last_editor_user_id": "10531", "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "Short answer, while you can find patterns that apply most of the times when it\ncomes to stroke order, **for these nuances and little perks you just have to\nknow them by rote.**\n\nThere is hardly any reason why a storied order is so and so. The reason strike\norder exists is for good penmanship, to allow you write a character\nbeautifully or, when you write fast and cursive, it remains intelligible. That\nsaid, stroke order is nothing more than a convention established because most\npeople at a place at a certain time period write this way. Which means, there\nis no absolute correct stroke order and it can vary with time and place.\n\nExample: 田 when writing the inner cross, in China you write the horizontal\nline first, but in Japan you write the vertical first.\n\n必 is a bit more complicated, but basically in Japan the last stroke is the\nright dot, in China the last stroke is the leftward slash, but in ancient\nChina, since this character is composed of 八 and 弋, you’d write it in the\norder you write these two characters. Taiwan, as I’ve heard, writes this\ncharacter different from all three ways mentioned above.\n\nWhich stroke order is right? Which is wrong? Neither. So why the horizontal\nfor 用 first and vertical for 角 first? Because such is the convention of modern\nJapan. Could be different in China, could be different in Taiwan, could be\ndifferent 100 years later/ago.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-12T02:47:26.167", "id": "95775", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-12T02:47:26.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "39855", "parent_id": "95774", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "小学校で、\n\n真ん中の縦棒が下に突き出るときは、縦棒が後 \neg 用、申、甲、羊、中、十\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KDias.png)\n\n真ん中の縦棒が下に突き出ないときは、横棒が後 \neg 田・由・角・曲（縦横横） \n王・玉、青・美の上（横縦横横の順）\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9uvzt.png)\n\nと習った記憶があります。", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-12T05:25:12.380", "id": "95777", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-12T05:57:40.167", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-12T05:57:40.167", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "9831", "parent_id": "95774", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "Because the verb here is not 会う, but 再会する.\n\nThat said, the できる is the potential form of する. So 再会する is to meet again, and\n再会できる is able to meet again.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-12T12:07:22.193", "id": "95778", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-12T17:01:43.960", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-12T17:01:43.960", "last_editor_user_id": "78", "owner_user_id": "39855", "parent_id": "95776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "I don't think past continuous tense has any function to make sentences\nhypothetical.\n\n> 確かに本来あなたは勝っていた。私は負けていました。\n\nThis sentence states a different possibility from the present situation and\nit's the work of 本来, not past continuous tense. Simply speaking, it can be\ntranslated as:\n\n> Originally, you should have won and I should have lost.\n\nOn second thought, we usually put the opposite sentences right after the word\n\"originally\", right?\n\n> i.e.) I would have studied abroad originally (if nothing had happened), but\n> I decided to stay in Japan because of COVID\n\nSo, I think the word itself has a hypothetical nuance, which addresses an\nevent that might have happened if nothing had happened. This can be the reason\nwhy they translated it in hypothesis.\n\nOn the contrary, I can see a clear hypothetical precondition in the following\nsentence:\n\n> If I had studied more, I would have passed my university entrance exams\n\nSo I'd simply say 「もしもっと勉強していたら、大学に入学できていただろうに」or something.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T01:56:58.173", "id": "95804", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-14T01:56:58.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19830", "parent_id": "95779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "I cannot tell from your excerpt what exactly それ refers to, but it is probably\na peculiar way this cat behaved when it couldn’t enter the house one day\nbecause the cat flap was closed. Whatever it was like, there must have been\nsomething to it that made the speaker think it is uncommon, and he believes it\nis uncommon by the standards of 世間 (ordinary people in general), too.\n\n世間的にもめずらしいだろう modifies the noun 姿 as an adjectival (or “relative”) clause.\nJudging from your translation attempt, I think you got this right.\n\nTranslating も as “even” is not bad, either. The speaker thinks it is uncommon\neven by the standards of 世間, not only in his own judgment.\n\nだろう adds the sense of “probably” because the speaker cannot be completely sure\nif 世間 agree it is uncommon.\n\nIf your doubt is about 世間, it’s not a very easy word to translate. Here, it\nrefers to society in general, or people that compose it, as opposed to the\nspeaker as an individual.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T04:40:24.290", "id": "95807", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-14T04:40:24.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95781", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "The free translation would be \"It's easy for us to defeat him completely\".\nだけの話 is translated as \"It's a mere thing\" and 話 here has nothing to do with\ntalk. It describes an event instead.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T06:35:34.190", "id": "95789", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T06:35:34.190", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19830", "parent_id": "95782", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "I think the most straight-up answer is to use 大 and 小.\n\nFor example:\n\n * 雪{ゆき} → 大雪{おおゆき}\n * 川{かわ} → 小川{おがわ}\n * 山{やま} → 大山{おおやま}\n * 猫{ねこ} → 小猫{こねこ} (alternatively 子猫{こねこ}・仔猫{こねこ})\n * 雨{あめ} → 大雨{たいう}・大雨{おおあめ}\n * 木{き} → 大木{たいぼく}\n * 樹{き} → 大樹{たいじゅ}\n * 牛{うし} → 小牛{こうし} (alternatively 子牛{こうし}・仔牛{こうし}・犢{こうし})\n * 鼓{つづみ} → 小鼓{しょうこ}\n\nI think you see the pattern here. While the Kanji is 大 and 小, their reading\ncan vary. On the other hand, with animals, sometimes 子/仔 is used in place of 小\nbut the reading remains the same. 大 can be おお・だい・たい while 小 can be\nしょう・こ・お(this one is rare) depending on the combination. You kind of just have\nto learn them one by one but there is a pattern once you see enough of these.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-12T21:37:06.440", "id": "95785", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T01:09:51.490", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-13T01:09:51.490", "last_editor_user_id": "39855", "owner_user_id": "39855", "parent_id": "95783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "I have never seen 大 and 小 as prefixes. They explicitly tell something is big\nor small just like 赤 tells something is red.\n\nI can think of only one word that I think more or less fits the definition of\na diminutive: 豆. This indicates something is small in size. It only goes with\ncertain words, though.\n\n * 豆電球\n * 豆タンク\n * 豆柴\n\nAs for augmentatives, I think ど might qualify. It indicates the degree of\nsomething is greater than normal. It’s informal.\n\n * ど真ん中\n * どケチ\n * どフリー (completely unmarked in certain sports)", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T07:31:29.160", "id": "95793", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T07:31:29.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "I couldn't find a definition for this in dictionaries, but I think this の is\nan emphatic listing particle. It's used between two similar words that\ndescribe a quality or state of something. It's typically used between two\nmimetic words ([example](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/38266/5010)),\nbut it can be used with other na-/no-adjectives.\n\n * イベントは最高の最強だった。\n * 最低の最悪な話を聞いた。\n * 服が泥まみれの埃まみれになっている。\n * こちらのパンは焼きたての熱々です。\n * ガチのマジで危なかった。\n * 本気の本気で頑張ります。 \n(The same word is used twice for emphasis)", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T06:45:36.783", "id": "95790", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T06:45:36.783", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95786", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "の is used to enumerate verbs and adjectives and 食い放題の飲み放題 enumerates two\nadjectives: 食い放題 and 飲み放題.\n\n> （主に用言につけて）列挙する。だの。\n\n> 狭いの暗いのって文句ばかりつける。\n\n> 言ったの言わないのと揉めていた。\n\nRef: <https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%AE>", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T06:49:03.910", "id": "95791", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T06:49:03.910", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19830", "parent_id": "95786", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "> ドキュメントをいただきます\n\nWe don't really say like that. In this case, we put it after a verb like\n先日はドキュメントを **送って** いただき、ありがとうございました。Basically, we thank for **his** behavior.\nAs a website you posted says, you can use the syntax noun + いただきます when you\nactually choose what to take, and it's not when you express your gratitude\nafter receiving something.\n\nI think we can use that syntax with non-physical things, too.\n\n> ドキュメントもありますが、そちらも一緒に送付しましょうか?\n\n> そうですね、ではドキュメントもいただきたいと思います。\n\nThis seems totally fine to me. Note that いただく is **our** behavior.", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T07:15:16.993", "id": "95792", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T07:15:16.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19830", "parent_id": "95788", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I don't think it as tangible vs nontangible. To me it's more like consuming\n(in a broad sense) vs not consuming.\n\nMany digital objects by their nature may not be consumed - they may be\npublicly available for download and no single person will consume it (in a way\nthat will render the object unavailable to others then). That would make\nいただきます less appropriate.\n\nIf a digital document has been made specifically for you (or your team of\npeople), it may be appropriate to to say Xさんからドキュメントをいただきました。 Or if you have\nbeen offered a virtual Amazon gift card that can be consumed, you can accept\nit by saying ありがとうございます。いただきます。\n\nHowever, I can see why someone might advice you not to use いただきます for digital\nobjects, because the criterion can often be a good enough proxy, and easier to\nuse.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T08:25:44.137", "id": "95794", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T08:25:44.137", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95788", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "What is (almost) regulated is mostly publishing, like books and magazines. The\ngovernment punishes nobody for using rare kanji, but publishers tend to have\nin-house rules that are based on the government's recommendations, with\ndifferent levels of internal enforcement.\n\nNewspapers tend to be strict about that. Lenient publishers might just warn\nthe author and ultimately let what they want to do, if the author persists.\nPublishers and authors are perfectly fine to do so.\n\nThat is just this non-expert's impression. For professional assessment, see\n<https://kotobaken.jp/qa/yokuaru/qa-119/> (in Japanese).", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T10:08:45.067", "id": "95796", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T10:08:45.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95795", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "Almost no Japanese people strictly remember which is a jōyō-kanji and which is\nnot. Many hyōgai kanji are used by native speakers without even realizing it's\nso (e.g., 絆, 飴, 雫...). Of course, the police won't care, either.\n\nNewspapers tend to follow the rule of not using hyōgai-kanji relatively\nstrictly, but even newspaper publishers have their own lists of exceptional\ncharacters that are hyōgai but usable in articles.\n\nThat said, the spelling of _takoyaki_ seen on signboards, Wikipedia articles\nand such is almost always たこ焼き (and rarely タコ焼き). If you used 蛸焼き, it would\nlook simply unfamiliar, and some people might even wonder if you're selling\nsomething unusual.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T10:31:49.437", "id": "95797", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-14T00:50:11.347", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-14T00:50:11.347", "last_editor_user_id": "5010", "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95795", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "There is more than one usage of のに.\n\nIf you are talking about the particle のに meaning \"even though\", \"despite\",\nyes, it is composed of\n準体助詞「の」＋接続助詞「に」([デジタル大辞泉（小学館）](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%AE%E3%81%AB/)).\n\nTo answer your question whether の is a nominalizer here: It could be a\nnominalizer, but in my view it doesn't have to be. 準体助詞 has varied definitions\nand interpretations. Please see [this answer: How exactly are 準体助詞 and 形式名詞\ndifferent?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/93346/30454).", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-13T23:07:38.410", "id": "95800", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-13T23:07:38.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30454", "parent_id": "95799", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "「早く寝ろよ」は、「今から寝ろ」とか、「今日の夜に早い時間に寝ろ」という場合に使う感じですが、「早く寝てろよ」は、「早く寝て、とある時間には寝ている状態にあれ」と言っている感じがします。\n\n例えば質問の2つ目の例でいうと、\n\n「嘘だろ早く寝てろよ」は、自分が帰ってくる前に早く寝て、自分が帰ってきた時にはすでに寝ているように、という感じがします。\n\n(1つ目の例は、文脈・状況がよくわかりません)\n\n似た例を考えてみました。\n\n「先に行け。/ 先に行って。」-- 今、自分より先に出発するように、ということに焦点を置いている感じです。 \n「先に行ってろ。/ 先に行ってて。」--\n自分は後から追いつくので、それより先に行って、自分が行った時にはそこにいるように、ということに焦点を置いている感じです。", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T01:50:37.397", "id": "95803", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-14T02:08:02.593", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-14T02:08:02.593", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "9831", "parent_id": "95801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I would feel \"早く寝てろ\" natural if the speaker's intention was to express \"You\nshould be in bed. You do need to have a rest. I am worried about you.\"\n\nThe phrase sounds very sympathetic. If you just want to say \"Go to bed,\"\n\"早く寝ろ\" fits well in most cases.\n\nIt is somewhat broken because a straightforward translation would be like\n\"Stay in bed soon,\" which might be the reason why your friend said it's wrong.\nThis phrase may be the one the speaker cannot help but saying before thinking\nabount correctness.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T12:32:43.637", "id": "95814", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-15T02:07:47.667", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-15T02:07:47.667", "last_editor_user_id": "54245", "owner_user_id": "54245", "parent_id": "95801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Yes you can, and the two sentences (you wrote?) are perfectly correct.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T03:09:14.043", "id": "95806", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-14T03:09:14.043", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "Yes. XをYとする is a related construction.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T05:31:19.627", "id": "95809", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-14T05:31:19.627", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95808", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You are right, かど is the only correct reading in this context.\n\n * かく: angle\n * つの: (animal) horn\n * かど: corner", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T07:15:58.697", "id": "95811", "last_activity_date": "2022-09-19T06:01:24.990", "last_edit_date": "2022-09-19T06:01:24.990", "last_editor_user_id": "42035", "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95810", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "I guess 今やっている作業が終われば is acceptable, but the whole sentence with 終わり次第 is more\nnatural as an order in office.\n\nYet another possibility is use of たら. To me,\n\n * 今やっている作業が終わったら、山口君の方を手伝ってやってくれ。\n\nis completely natural whereas 終われば is very slightly unnatural. The difference\nis subtle, but 終われば sounds like _in case/if ever you finish the job_ where the\npossibility of finishing the job is low. On the other hand, 終わったら sounds more\nsimply _if/when you finish the job_.\n\nBecause of this slight unnaturalness, 終わり次第 = _as soon as you finish_ is the\n(better) answer.\n\n* * *\n\nThere are a number of websites explaining conditional expressions\n([1](https://nihongokyoiku-shiken.com/to-ba-tara-nara-in-japanese/),\n[2](https://sensee.jp/media/teaching/difference-to-tara-ba-minnano-nihongo/),\n[3](https://tanosuke.com/to-ba-tara-nara)). In 1, it is stated that ば is used\nfor hypothetical condition and たら for a one-shot event, which I think explains\nthe above to some extent.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T11:55:18.093", "id": "95813", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-14T11:55:18.093", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "None of these are valid Japanese words. There are a few easy Japanese kanji\n(e.g., 奨, 乗, 測), but all the rest are characters that are not used in ordinary\nJapanese text. I don't know what corpus you are using, but you may need to\nseriously doubt its quality.\n\n(These don't seem to be valid Chinese words, either. Maybe this was caused by\nsome encoding issue?)", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-14T14:01:30.340", "id": "95816", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-14T14:01:30.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95815", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "This み is 実 in kanji, and it means 'fruit' in the biological sense.\n実【み】を付ける【つける】 is a set phrase meaning 'to bear fruit'.\n\nAs Chocolate pointed out, technically speaking, the 実 of the carrot is\nsomething like [this](https://hananusubito.blog.fc2.com/blog-\nentry-10143.html). The orange part we eat is technically 根 (root). Since this\nis a children's book, let's just overlook this small mistake and understand\nthat it means many (orange) carrots were produced.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-15T01:50:13.187", "id": "95824", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-15T01:50:13.187", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95817", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Don't change the original text. The man says \"ああそうかい それで\", not \"そっか\".\n\n * `そっか、それで!` means \"Ah, so that's why!\"\n * `ああそうかい。それで...` means \"I see, fine. So...\" or \"Okay, fair enough. So...\"\n\nSince it's a manga, punctuation marks are not shown, but the intended meaning\nis the latter.\n\n(ああ)そっか indicates the speaker just understood something, whereas (ああ)そうかい\nindicates the speaker heard something but is not very interested. It's そうかい\nthat corresponds to \"oh well\". Here それで just means \"So\" used to go back to the\nmain topic or move on to the next topic.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-15T04:40:56.617", "id": "95826", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-15T04:40:56.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95819", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "These are fundamentally different words. A stereotypical\n[ちゃらい](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/5094/5010) person may have both\ntraits, though.\n\n**お調子者** refers to a frivolous and talkative person who does not have their\nown opinion and readily chimes in with others. An お調子者 likes to survive by\nflattering someone or being flattered by someone.\n\n**かっこつけ** is someone who tries hard to appear or act cool. It can imply the\nperson is empty inside and does not have an ability that matches their\nappearance.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-15T01:22:17.590", "id": "95823", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-15T01:22:17.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95820", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "I think [jisho.org's\nexplanation](https://jisho.org/word/%E8%B3%AA%E3%81%8C%E6%82%AA%E3%81%84) is\nmisleading in this case. タチが悪い in this context is \"difficult to deal with\".\nNatsuki is not saying the other two have an evil personality, but is saying\ntheir personalities make the situation unnecessarily messy. The kanji for タチ\nis 質, but it's typically written in kana in this idiom because 質 is also read\nas しつ. タチが悪い never means \"I'm angry\".\n\nFor example, one can say:\n\n> 彼女は素直な性格だけにタチが悪い。\n>\n> She is honest, and that's what makes the problem worse. \n> She is difficult to deal with all the more for her honesty.\n\nYour understanding of 二人とも無自覚でそう言うこという seems fine. Natsuki is basically saying\nthat the other two sisters are too 甘い.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-15T01:04:07.283", "id": "95822", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-15T01:04:07.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "祝福の拍手にこたえて大きな声で返事をした is OK except こたえて and 返事をした make it redundant. It’s like\nsaying the player responded with a loud voice in response to the applause of\ncongratulations. It would sound more natural to say 祝福の拍手に大きな声で返事をした.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-15T05:27:30.763", "id": "95827", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-15T05:27:30.763", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95825", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "それ is the object of ごまかす. The basic meaning of ごまかす is described here:\n[Meaning of ごまかす](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/94402/5010)\n\nI think this それ refers to the 嘘 or the truth behind that 嘘; whichever makes\nsense. Either way, this それを誤魔化す refers to the efforts to move away from the\ntruth and assume the lie is the truth (i.e., he is omnipotent). The sentence\nis saying he was able to continue to believe he was almighty by looking down\non the ability of others.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-16T05:16:46.783", "id": "95837", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-16T05:16:46.783", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95828", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "The basic meaning is broadly the same. The difference rendered into English\nmight be something like:\n\n * あそこに学校【がっこう】がある \nThere is a school over there.\n\n * あそこは学校【がっこう】です \nThat over there is a school.\n\nDifferent nuance, same basic statement.\n\n* * *\n\nIn case it's helpful to anyone, here's a fuller exploration of the differences\nbetween the two statements.\n\nLet's look at these in a detailed breakdown of each sentence.\n\nThe first one uses the verb ある, which is used to express the idea that\nsomething \"exists\" somewhere, that \"there is\" something somewhere. 「XYZある」 is\nroughly equivalent to \"there is XYZ (somewhere or by someone that we've talked\nabout earlier)\".\n\n * あそこに学校【がっこう】がある → \n[あそこ]{over there }[に]{LOC }[学校]{ school }[が]{SUBJ }[ある]{ there is} → \nover there || in / at location || school || (subject) || exists / there is → \nat over there a school there is → \nThere is a school over there.\n\nThe second one uses です, which is used to express the idea that something \"is\"\nsomething else, that A = B. 「XYZです」 is roughly equivalent to \"XYZ is\n(something else that we've talked about earlier)\".\n\n * あそこは学校【がっこう】です → \n[あそこ]{over there }[は]{TOPIC }[学校]{ school }[です]{it is} → \nover there || (topic) || school || it is → \nover there a school it is → \nThat over there is a school.\n\nSo in terms of nuance, in the first sentence, we're talking about \"over\nthere\", and about what kinds of things there are in that location. In the\nsecond sentence, we're talking about \"over there\", and about what that\nlocation itself is.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-15T17:09:08.813", "id": "95830", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-16T18:00:40.140", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-16T18:00:40.140", "last_editor_user_id": "5229", "owner_user_id": "5229", "parent_id": "95829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "The colour you're thinking about is [水色]{みずいろ} (light blue). This is a\ndifferent word altogether to [水鳥]{みずとり} (waterfowl).\n\nThere is no sense in [this J-J\ndictionary](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%BF%E3%81%9A%E3%81%A8%E3%82%8A/)\nthat suggests that みずとり can refer to a colour.\n\n> 水上または水辺で生活する鳥の総称。水禽 (すいきん) 。\n>\n> A general term for birds which live on the water or at the water's edge.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-15T23:58:02.737", "id": "95833", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-16T06:18:35.857", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-16T06:18:35.857", "last_editor_user_id": "816", "owner_user_id": "816", "parent_id": "95832", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The short answer is that you could use the others, but if you compare,\nprobably 権力を持つ親を持った子供 is the most natural.\n\nThe basic points are:\n\n * 権力を持った親 sounds ambiguous about whether the parent has still power. (権力を持っていた親 definitely implies that the parent no longer has power or s/he is dead).\n * The repetition of 持つ sounds awkward.\n\nI guess it depends a lot on the nature of the actual words whether た-form or\nthe dictionary form is preferred. For example, 障害を持った子供を持つ親 is equally natural\nas 障害を持つ子供を持った親. A possible explanation is 権力 is much more volatile than\ndisabilities (and repetitions tend to be avoided).\n\nAlso, if there is no clause with 持つ (as in 権力を持つ), Xを持つ子供 is perfectly fine.\n\n * 裕福な親を持つ子供はボンボンと呼ばれる Children with rich parents are called Bonbon.\n\nHere (to me) …持った子供 is fine, but 持つ is slightly more natural.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-16T12:09:14.303", "id": "95843", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-16T12:09:14.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "* 僕も is at the end of the sentence because it was added as an afterthought. Semantically the sentence is the same as 僕もまったくどうかしてるな.\n * This も is an \"exclamatory-も\" described in this question: [Odd use of も has me stumped 「ソウルにいるのも今夜きりです」](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/32886/5010)\n * どうかしている (literally something like \"acting somehow\") is a set phrase that euphemistically means \"something is wrong (with someone)\", \"nuts\", \"insane\", etc., depending on the context.\n * This まったく is basically an adverbial intensifier meaning \"totally\", but it's also used like an interjection. \"Seriously\" or \"Indeed\" is a possible translation.\n * な is a sentence-end particle for (self-)confirmation or adding emotion. See: [When is \"na\" used at the end of a sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/33969/5010) and [Role of な in 嬉しいな](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/94197/5010)\n\nSo the whole sentence means \"Something's totally wrong with me(, huh?)\".", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-16T04:33:55.077", "id": "95836", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-16T04:47:12.940", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-16T04:47:12.940", "last_editor_user_id": "5010", "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95835", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I think the word order is reversed in the first sentence (in that the\npredicate is placed in front of its arguments).\n\nIn the normal order the sentence would be:\n\n> こういうのは悪くない\n\nThat leaves us with クリスマス, and this part doesn't seem well connected to the\nrest of the sentence. One way to think about it is an apposition with こういうの.\nAnother is to think it as a separate, one-word sentence that just observes\nthat \"[I see that] it's Christmas.\"", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-10-04T03:26:55.947", "id": "96483", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-04T03:26:55.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95838", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I suppose there's a typo: **日** 没まで.\n\nThe construction omits the subject 日没まではまだ **時間が** あるが. The last\n[が](https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%8C#) is a conjunction meaning _but_ , not\nthe subject particle. Literally the phrase means _There is still some time\ntill sunset, but are you gonna leave/set out?_ (The speaker is implicitly\nassuming they should set out after dark).\n\n* * *\n\nThe omission is common for time or distance.\n\n * 東京につくまでまだだいぶある (e.g. on trains) = it will take a while before we arrive in Tokyo (sounds more like time)\n * 東京まではだいぶある (e.g. on road) = there is a long way to go before we arrive in Tokyo (sounds more like distance)\n * 晩御飯までにはまだすこしあるからなにか食べよう = Let's eat something because there is still some time before dinner.\n\nAs seen in these, I think it is more common to use them with some\nquantification (すこし/だいぶ), but まだある also works in most cases.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-16T08:47:32.273", "id": "95841", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-16T12:43:57.773", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-16T12:43:57.773", "last_editor_user_id": "45489", "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95840", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "The first sentence is a big noun phrase with 笑い声 as its head. The second\nsentence can be understood as taking the previous head as its implicit\nsubject, making it a coordination of 笑い声が乾いている and 笑い声が響いている.\n\nXがYに響く means the sound (X) fills/touches Y. XがYに乾く does not seem idiomatic, so\nY would be just the place the event is taking place.\n\n乾いて響く is a more common collocation meaning \"something rings dry\" or \"something\nmakes a dry echoing sound\". So it might be a bit of a word play slightly\ndeviating from that.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-16T13:39:22.477", "id": "95845", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-16T13:47:45.517", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-16T13:47:45.517", "last_editor_user_id": "10531", "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95842", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm not sure of the exact grammar, but aguijonazo's comment suggests that the\nfollowing is relevant\n\n> （［動・終］～す） **ら** （ー）（よー） \n> ～するだろう、～しようと思う 例「わえが運転すらー」＝「私が運転しよう」\n> [Weblio和歌山弁辞書](https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%82%89?dictCode=WKYBJ)\n\nThere was also the following from [here](https://cherish-media.jp/posts/5941)\n\n> ③勧誘するときに使う「ら」\n> 語尾に「ら」を使うのも和歌山弁の方言の特徴といえます。例えば「ドライブしよう」を「ドライブしよら」や「私たち」を「わたしら」といったように\n\nら means similar to the standard う・よう, meaning _will, let's_. So 雨降ら = 雨が降るだろう\n= it will rain.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T05:56:17.403", "id": "95871", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T05:56:17.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95847", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "It looks to me like a smartphone hit the old man before he finishes to say a\nfull sentense such as \"明日は雪降らんぞ.\"\n\nUPDATE: Chololate kindly instructed me about the context. \"明日は雪降ら\" must be a\ncolloquially shortened version of \"明日は雪降らあ\" which adds an exclamatory tone to\n\"明日は雪が降る,\" expressing his surprise to see something which would never happen\n(明日は雪が降るわ>明日は雪降るわ>明日は雪降らあ). Angelo's comment already describes it.", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T05:57:07.163", "id": "95887", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-20T15:17:05.237", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-20T15:17:05.237", "last_editor_user_id": "54245", "owner_user_id": "54245", "parent_id": "95847", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "In this case, the -さん is a polite suffix and could provide information about\nyour relationship to the 本屋. For example, you are a customer, an employee, or\nare involved in business with it in some other way. Then you could use -さん to\nrefer to 本屋 in a polite conversation. Although I am not quite sure about\nwhether this is a requirement, or it is generally simply possible to add the\nhonorific without pragmatic change. Wikipedia refers to this use of the suffix\nas \"use with workplace nouns\", therefore there probably is a connection.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-16T18:53:13.210", "id": "95849", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-16T18:59:22.463", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-16T18:59:22.463", "last_editor_user_id": "54233", "owner_user_id": "54233", "parent_id": "95848", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "め can be a pejorative suffix attached to nouns. It adds a negative meaning or\nemphasis of insult to that word.\n\n[This\nsite](http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/%7Ets/japanese/message/jpnE2lki6zwE2d_2qW-.html)\nshows a couple examples:\n\n> **馬鹿め!** (Bakame!/You idiot!)\n\nHence you could translate the sentence as: \" _Stupid tomato, stupid tomato!\nWhere'd you go!_ \". It is also a personification of that tomato, since the boy\nis addressing his tomato directly.\n\n[Some](https://jref.com/threads/dishonorifics-question.34315/) forum users use\nthe word \"dishonorific\", but it doesn't seem to be a word that is generally\naccepted, known, or relevant.\n\nAs Eiríkr Útlendi pointed out in the comments, the correct term for the\nprocess of a neutral word becoming \"rude\" is called pejoration (\"make worse\").\nThe word itself is then called a pejorative. Pejoration is applied to トマト\nthrough the attachment of the [pejorative\nsuffix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative_suffix) め. Another way to\ncall it is \"derogatory suffix\".", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-17T02:56:22.973", "id": "95852", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-17T14:15:55.273", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-17T14:15:55.273", "last_editor_user_id": "54233", "owner_user_id": "54233", "parent_id": "95851", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "下る had an obsolete meaning \"smoothly understood\". Think of it like\n\"digestible\" in a figure of speech. 日本国語大辞典 says:\n\n> (14)つかえないですらすらと進む。 \n> ＊正徹物語〔１４４８～５０頃〕下「詞つづきも哥めき、吟のくだりて理をつめず幽にもやさしくも有るがよき歌也」\n\n下らない was originally the negation of this meaning: \"hard to make sense\", then\n\"nonsense\", then \"worthless\".\n\n> たとえば、江戸時代の最初期に出た日本語・ポルトガル語の辞書『日葡【にっぽ】辞書』に、 \n> 〈この経の義がくだらぬ〔＝このお経の意味が分からない〕〉 \n>\n> と記されています。つまり、「くだらぬ」は、「意味が分からない」という意味で、昔から使われていたのです。意味の分からないものは評価が低くなります。そこから今の「取るに足りない」という意味の「くだらない」につながるのです。\n> ([source](https://kangaeruhito.jp/article/3557))", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-17T03:43:56.640", "id": "95855", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-17T03:43:56.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7810", "parent_id": "95853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "I guess it is a short/dry laugh \"Ha, ha\" or possibly an exclamation \"Hmm.\" はは\nsometimes means \"Yes, Sir!\", but it can't be the case.\n\nIt lookes to me like an extract from a novel.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T15:52:38.610", "id": "95875", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T15:52:38.610", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54245", "parent_id": "95854", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "The first で (after だけ) is the te-form of だ (= is...and...), and the second で\n(after どちらか) is a location marker (= in/at/on). This 尽きる is one of the\nindirect ways of saying 死ぬ.\n\n * ～だけだ。 \nIt's merely a ～.\n\n * ～の違いだけだ。 \nIt's merely a difference of ～.\n\n * [尽きる場所が、家か７階か]の違いだけだ。 \nIt's merely a difference of [whether the place where it (=his life) ends is\nthe house or the 7th floor]. \n(`[]` indicates an embedded question (a noun clause).)\n\n * 尽きる場所が、家か７階かの違いだけで、確実にどちらか **で** 死ぬ。 \nIt's only a matter of whether he dies in his house or on the 7th floor; he\nwill certainly die **in** either of the two places.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-17T11:03:01.677", "id": "95859", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-17T11:15:47.897", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-17T11:15:47.897", "last_editor_user_id": "5010", "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95858", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\"は\" in this case is to restrict the extent. By restriction, you hint at\nsomething else beyond restriction such as:\n\n * 学校を中退して働き始めたことを後悔してはいない（が、できれば卒業したかった）。\n * 約束を忘れてはいない（けど、すぐに果たす気はない）。\n * 彼は間違った事を言ってはいない（ちょっと表現に問題はあるけどね）。\n\nIf you say 後悔していない, 忘れていない or 言っていない, you just mean it.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T15:08:04.957", "id": "95874", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T15:08:04.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54245", "parent_id": "95860", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "School-grammatically and according to デジタル大辞泉,\n[あんな](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%82%E3%82%93%E3%81%AA/#jn-8836)\nis na-adjective (形容動詞). From the entry (bold added):\n\n> **あんな has two pre-noun forms あんな and あんなな. Usually あんな is used** , but\n> before ので/のに, あんなな is used. E.g., 事態があんななので、どうすることもできない.\n\nSo rather than あん+な, it is あんなな with the last な dropped.\n\n* * *\n\nThe [の](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%AE/#jn-171157) here is 準体助詞\n（[a related question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/93338/how-\nexactly-\nare-%E6%BA%96%E4%BD%93%E5%8A%A9%E8%A9%9E-and-%E5%BD%A2%E5%BC%8F%E5%90%8D%E8%A9%9E-different-\nin-what-regard-and-where-does-%E3%81%AE-stand)）:\n\n> ２ （活用語に付いて）その語を名詞と同じ資格にすることを表す。「読む―が速い」「彼を行かせる―はまずい」「こんな―が欲しい」→\n\nSo yes, の is nominalizing あんな.\n\n* * *\n\nGenerally a particle connects to specific forms of verbs (possibly comparable\nto prepositions connecting to specific cases of nouns in some European\nlanguages).\n\nThe relevant definition of に is:\n\n> ［格助］名詞、名詞に準じる語、動詞の連用形・連体形などに付く ５ 動作・作用の目的を表す。「見舞い―行く」「迎え―行く」\n\nFor the particular case, 見 is 連用形, not infinitive form (I assume it to mean\nstem).\n\nPractically \"Verb (連用形) + に行く\" means \"go to/and V\". From foreigners' grammar\nperspective, 連用形 covers both te-form and masu-form. And the form that comes\nbefore に行く is masu-form. Hopefully someone corrects me if I'm wrong.", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T02:51:30.787", "id": "95866", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T04:13:41.973", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-18T04:13:41.973", "last_editor_user_id": "45489", "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95862", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "Did you have the impression that all noun phrases must be marked with\nparticles? This isn't the case, particularly in spoken Japanese.\n\nAlso, normally in written Japanese you don't have spaces like this. I think\nthis must be due to how the subtitles are written to reflect the rhythm of the\ndialogue.\n\nThe idiomatic (not literal) translation would be something like:\n\n> すっげー時間のムダ ホント 金 返せって感じ \n> What a frigging waste of time, honestly. I'm like, give me my money back.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-17T23:31:21.017", "id": "95864", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-17T23:31:21.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "816", "parent_id": "95863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I would read it as two lines like this.\n\n> すっげー時間のムダ。 \n> ホント、金返せって感じ。\n\nホント is used as an adverb. You could say 本当に but it would probably sound too\nformal in this context.\n\nThe particle を is omitted between 金 and 返せ. This happens all the time in\ninformal speech.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T03:30:50.657", "id": "95868", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T03:30:50.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It’s highly dependent on context.\n\nIn this particular context, I suppose 頭 belongs to the person who does the\nwriting. My reading of the sentence is that it describes a state where Person\nA writes (about/to) Person B but Person B’s face is not committed in Person\nA’s head. Then, it would be natural to say 書く人物 from the perspective of Person\nA as the subject, and 人物 would be naturally understood as the object of\nwriting, which is Person B. In other words, it is because of 書く人物 that I\nunderstood the sentence the way I did.\n\n書かれた人物 is not nonsense. It just sounds like Person B is already written\n(about/to), and by someone other than Person A (i.e. the owner of 頭).\n\n書かれる人物 would solve one of the problems but it would still sound like the\nwriting is, or will be, done by someone else.\n\nIf you want to eliminate the ambiguity, you can make the subject explicit.\n\n> 自分が／の書く人物の顔が頭に入っていないと効果はない。", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T04:19:01.130", "id": "95870", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T04:19:01.130", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95865", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "It seems the artist omits \"（自分が）デスノートに名前を\" from the line:\n\n * Japanese: _デスノートに名前を_ 書く人物の顔が 頭に入っていないと効果はない\n * English: I cannot kill a person who I don't remember one's face even if I write one's name on the Death Note.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T12:22:14.420", "id": "95873", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T12:34:36.827", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-18T12:34:36.827", "last_editor_user_id": "38986", "owner_user_id": "38986", "parent_id": "95865", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "The sentence \"アリスという本\" just lacks its subject. It can be rephrased to\n\"人々がアリスという本\" (the book that people call Alice). What the implied subject means\ndepends on context and situation.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T08:12:22.033", "id": "95872", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T11:55:45.370", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-18T11:55:45.370", "last_editor_user_id": "38986", "owner_user_id": "38986", "parent_id": "95869", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "That is そうだ + んだ. The copula, だ, always becomes な when the explanatory の/ん\nfollows.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T19:34:20.143", "id": "95881", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T19:34:20.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7944", "parent_id": "95876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "Generally difference in reading does not imply that of meaning. 木 means\nsomething related to trees regardless of how it is read.\n\nIf it appears just by itself (i.e. as 木 without any preceding or following\nkanji), it should be read き.\n\n* * *\n\nFYI: 木材 is commonly もくざい, but\n[きざい](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E6%9C%A8%E6%9D%90_%28%E3%81%8D%E3%81%96%E3%81%84%29/#jn-51534)\nseems acceptable as well.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T02:03:38.140", "id": "95884", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T02:03:38.140", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95878", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "Apparently 木（モク） is a jargon and can be used by architects and other\nprofessionals related to the field, presumably to make it less ambiguous.\n\n<https://a-a-o.net/20120208/>\n\n> 現場は木（モク）の迫力ある光景です。\n\n<https://dlisv03.media.osaka-\ncu.ac.jp/contents/osakacu/kiyo/111H0000010-2-07.pdf>\n\n> 木（モク）でも、耐火性能が高い、不燃材扱いのものがありますね。\n\nFor the vast majority of cases 木 as a material and as a non-compound word is\nread き. Stories written by journalists like this one would be among them.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T03:44:20.457", "id": "95885", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-20T01:45:01.050", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-20T01:45:01.050", "last_editor_user_id": "10531", "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95878", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "本 and 元 essentially mean the same thing, as can be seen in the\n[entry](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E6%9C%AC_%28%E3%82%82%E3%81%A8%29/#jn-219563)\nin デジタル大辞泉. So 大本 and 大元 should be interchangeable and 大元 is acceptable,\nalthough most dictionaries seem to have only\n[大本](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%A4%A7%E6%9C%AC_%28%E3%81%8A%E3%81%8A%E3%82%82%E3%81%A8%29/#jn-29619).", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T01:44:13.770", "id": "95883", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T01:44:13.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95879", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "I see them as the same word, just written different ways. This is in contrast\nto homonyms like 雲/蜘蛛 for くも. Both kanji forms 大本 and 大元 are valid. Hiragana\n(おおもと) is not too unreasonable, too.\n\n大本 is also the name of a Shinto sect started one century ago. That may be why\nsome people avoid writing that way when they mean the more general term.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T09:38:09.273", "id": "95889", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T09:38:09.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95879", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "迎える has another meaning: ある時になる.\n\n> [人]が[ある時]を迎える = [someone] approach/reach [a certain time]\n\n[プログレッシブ和英中辞典](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/%E8%BF%8E%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B/#je-73536)\nsays:\n\n> むかえる【迎える】 \n> 4 〔ある時になる〕 \n> 新年を迎える greet the New Year \n> 老いを迎える reach old age \n> 20歳の誕生日を迎える reach one's twentieth year / celebrate one's twentieth birthday \n> 死を迎える approach death \n> 結婚してから２度目の春を迎えた The second spring after their marriage came around.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-18T21:39:47.477", "id": "95882", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-18T21:39:47.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9831", "parent_id": "95880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Basic meaning of 迎える is to welcome/greet people. You can use this word while\nor before meeting that person. When 迎える is used with time-related words, such\nas Christmas or new year, it still has that basic meaning and you can\nunderstand this as time/season is about to come (and you are expecting it to\ncome). So クリスマスを迎える means that the Christmas is just around the corner or it\nis already the Christmas time. Therefore, \"ダ一リンの実家でむかえるはじめてのクリスマス。\" can be\nunderstood as \"The first Christmas that somebody is going to\nspend/celebrate/celebrating at the family home of one's lover\"", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T04:21:02.327", "id": "95886", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T04:21:02.327", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54289", "parent_id": "95880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "記憶 is the most normal word for \"memory\", or \"information you remember\".\n\nメモリー is an English loanword, whose scope of use is far more limited. Today it\nmost often means _memory_ in computers. When referring to human memory, I\nguess it is usually a synonym of 思い出, which is closer to \"reminiscence\" or\n\"past episode that evokes an emotion\", or like _memory_ in \"fond memory\", but\nstill not used as frequent as its Japanese counterparts.\n\nNote that 記憶 is also used as a computing term, but it means _store_ or\n_storage_ rather than _memory_.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-20T06:00:46.583", "id": "95904", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-20T06:00:46.583", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7810", "parent_id": "95890", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "社会人になる is not a continuous change because it usually means\n（学校・大学などを卒業して）就職する・働き始める.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T14:17:35.450", "id": "95893", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T14:17:35.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9831", "parent_id": "95892", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If the sentence with option c is read or heard without care, few native\nspeaker would feel awkward. If careful, majority would not choose c (Some\nwould, though).\n\nMost probable reason for awkwardness I can think of is that \"となったら\" is usually\nfollowed by something contrary to the foreseeable/expected future. For\nexample:\n\n * 奴らが乗り込んでくるとなったら戦うぜ（戦わないつもりだったが）。\n * 台風が来るとなったら旅行は中止するしかない（どんなに行きたくても）。\n\nIn your case, the house must be a rat-trap (because it is presumed to collapse\nたちまち with an earthquake) and likely to be broken down sooner or later. If the\nsentence were \"...この家ですら壊れてしまうだろう,\" option c would fit.\n\n\"ようものなら\" is usually followed by something which accelerates/makes more\nprobable the foreseeable/expected future.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T18:57:03.577", "id": "95896", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T21:36:58.323", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-19T21:36:58.323", "last_editor_user_id": "54245", "owner_user_id": "54245", "parent_id": "95894", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "This なる is similar in function to that in `[V dictionary form]-ことになる`.\n\nWhen you say 地震が起こるとなったら, you are not putting yourself in a situation in which\nthe earthquake has already happened. For that, you would simply say 地震が起こったら.\nRather, you are supposing a situation in which it has been just determined\nthat the earthquake will happen, or you have just learned it. The house would\nbe still standing.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T21:53:40.037", "id": "95897", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T21:53:40.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95894", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "There are a lot of rules around this, but basically:\n\n * You use 万, 億, 兆, etc. but not 千, 百, 十. So 一二三三四五 is not used and 百2十3万３百４十５ is not acceptable.\n * Use commas: １２３３４５ should be 123,345.\n\nIf the text is horizontal, １２３万３４５ should be fine but the number is small\nenough to use \"123,345\". If it gets bigger, use of 億 or 兆 is necessary. If the\ntext is vertical 一二三万三四五 may be used but 百二十三万三百四十五 would be more common\n(contrary to the first rule above).\n\nFor decimals, in most horizontal texts, only Arabic numerals are used. In\nvertical texts, ５・０８ or 五・〇八 is used to mean 5.08. Notation like 3割2分 or 三割二分\nis used mostly in specific contexts such as statistics related to some sports.\n\n* * *\n\nI think style guides like\n[this](https://www.kyodo.co.jp/books/isbn/978-4-7641-0733-5/) contain a lot\nmore details.\n\n * [新しい「公用文作成の要領」にむけて](https://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/bunkashingikai/kokugo/hokoku/pdf/92895101_01.pdf)\n * [漢数字表記について（縦書論文の場合）](https://www.soc.hit-u.ac.jp/journal/hyouki.pdf)", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-20T04:06:00.487", "id": "95901", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-20T04:06:00.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95895", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "You can get a good overview from the government's official guideline\n[公用文作成の考え方](https://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/bunkashingikai/kokugo/hokoku/pdf/93651301_01.pdf)\n(see Annex I-4), which was just revised this year, though it is not the only\ndecisive rules.\n\nIn general, there are several modes of consistent styles for horizontal and\nvertical writings respectively, and mixing conventions from multiple systems\nis not a recommended practice.\n\n 1. For horizontal writing\n\n 1. Positional notation, Western-style separators\n\n> 123,045,067.089\n\n 2. Positional notation, Japanese separators\n\n> 1億2304万5067.089\n\nNote 1: Japanese fractional units (割, 分, 厘……) are **not** to be used together\nwith most of dimensionless units larger than 1.\n\nNote 2: there sometimes seen thousand-based delimiting in statistic or\nfinancial fields to align with Western ledger sheets.\n\n> 123百万045千067.089\n\n 3. Spelled out\n\n> 一億二千三百四万五千六十七点〇八九 or \n> 一億二千三百四万五千六十七・〇八九\n\n 4. (bonus) Anti-forgery spelling for accounting ([大字](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%97_\\(%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%97\\)))\n\n> 壱億弐阡参陌肆萬伍阡陸拾漆円 \n> 壱億弐千参百四万五千六拾七円 (legal style) \n> etc.\n\n 2. For vertical writing\n\n 1. Positional notation, Western-style separators\n\n> 一二三、〇四五、〇六七・〇八九\n\nHowever, for numbers in fixed formats and/or of small amount (e.g. dates, ID,\npercentage...), Arabic numerals are also used. Such lesser digit numbers are\noften packed into one character size in professional typesetting\n([縦中横](https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#handling_of_tatechuyoko)). See:\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g52iB.png)\n\n 2. Positional notation, Japanese separators\n\n> 一億二三〇四万五〇六七・〇八九\n\n 3. Spelled out \n(same as 1-3)\n\n 4. Anti-forgery spelling \n(same as 1-4)\n\nThe fullwidth vs. halfwidth Arabic numeral usage is a highly controversial\ntopic with much disagreement across house rules, but unless you are a\ntypesetter, sticking to halfwidth figures seems the best practice.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-20T04:35:01.990", "id": "95902", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-20T04:35:01.990", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7810", "parent_id": "95895", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Historically, derivationally, the desiderative ending ～たい comes from 痛【いた】い.\nThis is speculation on my part -- the phonology of that initial //i// in\n//itai// may have prevented the gemination that developed in Eastern Japanese\nforms like 買【か】って, or the fusion (or contraction?) that we see in 死【し】んで.\n\nNote that Western Japanese often has ～うて・～うた, where Eastern (i.e. \"Standard\"\nor 標準語【ひょうじゅんご】, i.e. Tokyo) Japanese has ～って・った. Eastern 買【か】って shows up in\nWestern (Kansai, anyway) as 買【こ】うて, for example.", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-19T23:33:02.480", "id": "95899", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T23:43:19.387", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-19T23:43:19.387", "last_editor_user_id": "5229", "owner_user_id": "5229", "parent_id": "95898", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "It is not a very common word in today's language. According to [the dictionary\ndefinition](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%81%BD%E3%82%8A%E8%80%85/):\n\n> うそをつく人。いつわりびと。\n>\n> 「わらはを―にせうと云ふ事か」〈虎明狂・塗師〉\n\nIts meaning is \"liar\", which is a human. The word seems to be used at several\nplaces in the Japanese Bible translations.\n\n> 偽り者とは、イエスがキリストであることを否定する者でなくて、誰のことでしょうか。御父と御子を否定する者、これこそ反キリストです。 \n> _Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the\n> antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son._ (1 John 2:22, ESV)", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-20T05:08:27.250", "id": "95903", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-20T05:08:27.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7810", "parent_id": "95900", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "1. It is mostly a matter of translation. It still means _from_ , or _compared with_. Consider another example: 人間は一万年前 **から** 進歩してない= _People have not changed **compared with/since** 10000 years ago_. The sentence could be translated as _(It) is no different from chain letters_.\n\n 2. It is certainly a version of してはいない, but the difference is rather subtle, 全然進歩して(い)ない sounds practically the same to me, simply しちゃいない being more colloquial. \nThat said, the presence of は can be considered as an emphasis. Or (not\nexclusively) it indicates the contrast with the common conception that the\nopposite is true (in the example, it **is** different from chain letters). For\nexample, 人間は1万年前から進歩しちゃいない sounds more like the speaker assuming that\ngenerally it is believed that humans have changed a lot over 10000 years.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T01:05:17.600", "id": "95923", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T01:05:17.600", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Easier order to start next stroke is chosen there.\n\nWriting letters top-down (and right-to-left) has long been the only way for\nJapanese until late 18th century\n([Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B8%A6%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A8%E6%A8%AA%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D)).\nTry following that way and you'll feel the difference in order reasonable. If\nyou use a writing brush, it'll be more convincing.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-20T13:36:15.420", "id": "95909", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-20T13:50:19.700", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-20T13:50:19.700", "last_editor_user_id": "54245", "owner_user_id": "54245", "parent_id": "95907", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "Some may say it's a poor writing style to repeat -が in succession. That\ndoesn't make it unnatural, however, especially in speech.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-09-01T03:53:00.270", "id": "96066", "last_activity_date": "2022-09-01T03:53:00.270", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95908", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "Here's your situation:\n\n**1,000近いrepがある私とて実用的な例文を探すのが難しい**\n\n_Even I, who has near 1,000 reps, struggle to find a practical example_\n\n* * *\n\nOne typical set phrase I see often is **私とて黙っちゃいない** .\n\nAlthough it's rather antiquated as you said, it's still borderline \"normal\"\neven by today's standards to simply replace with **だって** if you wish:\n\n**Even a rich person can't buy time**\n\n * 金持ち だって 時間は 買えない\n * 金持ち とて 時間は 買えない\n\n**Even I can't do it (assuming \"I\" am a capable person)**\n\n * 私 だって できない\n * 私 とて できない\n\nSo it's more about **when** to use とて over other options such as だって. I'd use\nit in a serious situation to add drama, which can be said for many \"archaic\"\nphrases.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T01:27:54.590", "id": "95924", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T02:59:22.593", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-21T02:59:22.593", "last_editor_user_id": "48366", "owner_user_id": "48366", "parent_id": "95910", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "I think they differ mostly in what they can take as objects, rather than in\nmeaning.\n\n運営 means steering or organizing an event or the like. Typically done by some\ncommittee. オリンピック/国会/ソーシャルゲームの運営(not 経営 nor 管理).\n\n経営 has connotations of financial/business aspect and 管理 means more about\noverseeing actual operations.\n\n * CEO, CFO, CTO etc. are usually referred to as 経営陣.\n * If a factory is on fine, 管理者 would be responsible for it.\n * Due to the fire, the company goes bankrupt, then it is the responsibility of 経営者.\n * 'Managing jobs' (typically with manager in the title) are called 管理職. Most CxO are managing some people (who are often managers themselves), so in that sense they are both 経営者 and 管理職. (管理者 usually refers to a person in charge of specific institution.)\n\nSo 経営 means to make sure that things keep going, aiming for better results\nwhereas 管理 means to make sure that things proceed without problems, as\ndesigned.\n\nSee also [a thesaurus\nentry.](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/thsrs/7128/meaning/m1u/%E7%B5%8C%E5%96%B6/)", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-23T11:51:41.217", "id": "95966", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-23T11:51:41.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95911", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Practically I think this is a usage which does not translate to _because_ very\nwell. It can be considered as a pattern for expressing a resolution: _Now, I\nwill be a good cook and 見返す (somebody)!_.\n\nWhat is omitted after だから can be 覚えておきなさい/覚悟しなさい/見てなさい etc., but these don't\nusually appear in this usage. Verbosely, _Now I will be a good cook and ..,\n**so be prepared**!_. This _so_ corresponds to the だから.\n\nAs 見返す is used in this example, it implies that the speaker is in a 'lesser'\nposition, e.g. like being a bad cook in the example. Or someone thinks that\nthe resolution is unachievable. In other words, んだから construction implies that\nthe resolution has the nature of 'reversing' the situation or somebody's\nexpectation.\n\nAlso んだから is usually feminine. A masculine version would be perhaps やるからな\n(…見返してやるからな).", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T00:43:25.353", "id": "95921", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T00:43:25.353", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95912", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "In terms of common usage, you are right. 承ります would be much more normal here.\nBut 賜る could be used for receiving abstract things, like 条件. In that sense, it\nshouldn't be completely wrong.\n\nI believe light novel authors sometimes consciously deviate from common usage\nor use rare words just in order to sound cool, and 賜る here is just one\ninstance.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T00:11:46.813", "id": "95920", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T02:53:30.880", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-21T02:53:30.880", "last_editor_user_id": "45489", "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95913", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I assume it refers to Death Note.\n\n 1. 人間界単位で modifies 40秒以内に. It says _by human world units (as opposed to the units in Luke's world)._ So 人間界単位で40秒以内に means _within 40 seconds (measured) by human world units_. It is a bit odd since it is written in a human language anyway.\n\n 2. Grammatically 人間界 modifies 単位 and it could be written 人間界の単位, _the (system of) units of human world_. 単位 here refers to the system of measurement.", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T00:06:37.110", "id": "95919", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T00:06:37.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95914", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "It isn't 「まあなんて ロマンチック」with the とは kind of なんて, it's 「まあ なんてロマンチック」 where なんて\nmeans 'how' as in 'How fun!' まあ is optional and just means 'Oh my', and you\ncould expand it to 「なんてロマンチックなんでしょう！」\n\nI wouldn't say it strictly has romantic connotations in and of itself, even\nhere. The romantic implications are caused by context. You wouldn't say 'Oh\nmy' has romantic connotations _in and of itself_ if a woman had a crush on a\nman and she said 'Oh my' if the man asked her out to the movies.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-20T23:27:18.337", "id": "95918", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T10:12:40.877", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-21T10:12:40.877", "last_editor_user_id": "9971", "owner_user_id": "9971", "parent_id": "95916", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Yes, まあ may mean \"like gosh\", and not necessarily tied with romance.\n\nIt may be used to express just the opposite:\n\n * まあ、なんて汚らわしい = Gosh, how filthy\n * まあ、なんてひどい = Gosh, how terrible\n\nYes, it is used often to depict an inspired or uplifting state of mind:\n\n * まあ、なんて綺麗 = Gosh, how beautiful\n * まあ、なんてロマンチック = Gosh, how romantic\n\n* * *\n\nYou may also prepend あら to add the \"Oh\" effect:\n\n * あらまあ、なんて恐ろしい = Oh gosh... how terrifying", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T00:46:47.027", "id": "95922", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T00:46:47.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48366", "parent_id": "95916", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "My dog looks like a cow! It is probably\n\n> わたしの(かっている)犬は牛のようだ。\n\nThis sounds more like “My dog is like a cow.”\n\n> 牛のように見える\n\nis more precise but it would be odd for someone who is describing her/his dog.\nA stranger would give that type of comment.\n\nThis is better: __の__は__に[似]{に}ている。 Eg:\n\n> わたしの犬は牛に似(に)ている。(My dog reassembles a cow.)", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T04:48:15.690", "id": "95927", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T10:00:42.670", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-22T10:00:42.670", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "54299", "parent_id": "95925", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "[なら](https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89) can mean _as for, on the\ntopic of_. So the sentence means literally, _as for money, I have it_.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T03:52:58.357", "id": "95947", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T03:52:58.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95928", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This Xなら is still basically a conditional expression. You can translate it\nusing conditionals like \"If X is what matters\", \"If it's about X\", \"If you\nmean X\", \"If X is the case\", \"If you worry about X\", and so on. For example,\nそれなら is typically translated as \"If so\" or \"If that's the case\".\n\n金ならあるし can be understood along the lines of \"If money matters, I have some\".\nIn this case, the difference between 金ならあるし and 金はあるし is probably not very\nimportant, so it's okay to translate the なら as just an emphatic version of は.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T07:44:21.863", "id": "95950", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T15:03:24.357", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-22T15:03:24.357", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95928", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "ちゃんと笑いの分かる and 君よりいい both modify の, which I believe refers to 感情.\n\n> ［［ちゃんと笑いの分かる］［君よりいい］の（＝感情）］が（ある）。\n\n* * *\n\n[Edit]\n\nちゃんと might be outside of the brackets modifying ある.\n\n> ちゃんと［［笑いの分かる］［君よりいい］の（＝感情）］が（ある）。", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T07:19:49.220", "id": "95932", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T09:30:57.537", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-21T09:30:57.537", "last_editor_user_id": "43676", "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95929", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "It means There's nothing／no one better than you, who knows how to smile. Hope\nit helps！", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T08:24:09.107", "id": "95933", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T08:24:09.107", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54299", "parent_id": "95929", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "In your case, か and ケ have the same meaning and can be used interchangeably.\nAs ケ appears somewhat old-fashioned, it may look natural if you use か to write\nabout your dog.\n\nPlease note that they are not identical and there are cases where those two\nhave different functions, e.g. you can describe 5 pieces as 5ケ (in this case\nyou pronounce ケ as \"ko\" in stead of \"ka\"!), but not as 5か. Expressions related\nto numbers are so unique in every language, aren't they?", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T11:10:24.993", "id": "95936", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T18:38:51.040", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-21T18:38:51.040", "last_editor_user_id": "54245", "owner_user_id": "54245", "parent_id": "95930", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's [査読](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%BB%E8%AA%AD) in kango. It also\nworks as a transitive suru-verb, so you can say 論文(原稿)を査読する. (ピア)レビュー is also\ncommon and safely understood (at least by researchers). _Reviewer_ is 査読者 or\nレビュアー.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-21T09:01:05.033", "id": "95935", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-21T09:01:05.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95934", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "I suspect that the Jisho.org entry is reflecting sense ③ in the _Nihon Kokugo\nDaijiten_ (NKD) entry visible [here at\nKotobank](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%91%BD-435448). Specifically:\n\n> ③ (生【い】きるよりどころの意味【いみ】から特殊化【とくしゅか】して)\n> 一生【いっしょう】をそれに捧【ささ】げてもよい誠意【せいい】を示【しめ】す証拠立【しょうこだ】ての文字【もじ】、また、転【てん】じてその語【ご】。多【おお】く遊里【ゆうり】に行【おこ】なわれた習慣【しゅうかん】で、相愛【そうあい】の男女【だんじょ】が互【たが】いに二【に】の腕【うで】へ「命【いのち】」の一字【いちじ】、または「誰々【だれだれ】命【いのち】」と[入]{い}れ墨【ずみ】して、二世【にせ】も三世【さんぜ】もと誓【ちか】った。 \n> (3) (specialized from the meaning of one's reason for living) character\n> serving as proof showing that one is in earnest in giving up one's life for\n> something, or, by extension, such a word. Common custom in the red-light\n> districts [of the Edo period], when a man and woman in love with each other\n> would have the [命]{inochi} [\"life\"] kanji tattooed on their upper arms, or\n> \"[NAME] [命]{inochi}\" [\"NAME life\"], and pledge even to their second or third\n> incarnations.\n\nThe Daijisen entry [on that same\npage](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%91%BD-435448#E3.83.87.E3.82.B8.E3.82.BF.E3.83.AB.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.B3.89)\nsays much the same thing as the NKD, as does my local copy of Daijirin.\n\nThe quote given in the NKD dictionary entry as cited evidence of this usage is\ndated to 1678. That, plus the mention of the 遊里【ゆうり】 or Edo-period red-light\ndistrict, leads me to believe that this is probably an historical custom that\nis no longer in common practice (if at all).", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T05:43:46.827", "id": "95948", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T13:42:26.520", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-22T13:42:26.520", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "5229", "parent_id": "95937", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "`〜たりとも〜ない` is typically used to express the idea that even a small amount\nshould not be allowed to break the continuity or completeness of something, or\nto deny the existence of such an amount.\n\n> 一秒たりとも目が離せない。\n\n> 一度たりとも嘘をついたことがない。\n\nThe usage of `〜として〜ない` is broader, and you can rephrase the above sentences\nwith it without changing their meanings.\n\n> 一秒として目が離せない。\n\n> 一度として嘘をついたことがない。\n\nIn addition, it can also be used to express that even a single instance of\nsomething doesn’t do something or doesn’t meet some condition.\n\n> 一人として彼を助けようとしない。\n\n> 一つとして気に入るものがなかった。\n\nThese sentences would sound a bit weird if として was replaced with たりとも, at\nleast to me.\n\nAn interrogative may precede the word for the single instance.\n\n> 誰一人として彼を助けようとしない。\n\n> 何一つとして気に入るものがなかった。\n\nThis seems to work only with として.", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T00:53:33.950", "id": "95943", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T00:53:33.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95939", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You can say いろいろな種類(のティーバッグ)が2個ずつあります.\n\nいろいろな種類 can work as a noun meaning \"things of various kinds\".\n\nThis 2個ずつ is an [adverb](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/17816/5010), and\nずつ is a useful suffix that means \"for every\" or \"each\". In case you don't know\nずつ, here's a good starter: [JLPT N3 Grammar ずつ\n(zutsu)](https://jlptsensei.com/learn-japanese-\ngrammar/jlpt-n3-grammar-%E3%81%9A%E3%81%A4-zutsu-meaning/)", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T02:00:45.200", "id": "95946", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T02:00:45.200", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95940", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Your translation attempt is okay overall, but 自覚できるくらい is an adverbial phrase\nthat modifies いい. See: [Postpositional or prepositional\nくらい](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/29453/5010)\n\n> 昔から『勘と運』だけは自覚出来るくらいいい。\n>\n> Ever since I was a kid, I have at least good luck and intuition to the point\n> where I can be aware of them.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T01:52:43.797", "id": "95945", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T01:52:43.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95941", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "早く in 早く言う is (functioning as) an adverb (or, the adverbial form of the\ni-adjective 早い.) \n早く in 早くに言う is a noun (the noun form of the i-adjective 早い --\n形容詞「早い」の連用形「早く」が名詞になったもの). So 「早く+に」 is literally \"at + an early time\".\n\nSimilar examples of this noun form:\n\n> * 遅く -- こんな **遅く** に何の用だ\n> * 遠く -- **遠く** で雷が鳴っている\n> * 近く -- **近く** まで来た\n> * 深く -- 海の **深く** に沈む\n>\n\nNot all i-adjectives work like this (eg 美しく, 明るく, 大きく can not be a noun.) Only\nseveral i-adjectives expressing the degree of time and space have this noun\nform (eg 遅く, 早く, 近く, 遠く, 深く, 古く, 高く, 低く).", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T01:02:34.010", "id": "95944", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T00:54:59.983", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-25T00:54:59.983", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "9831", "parent_id": "95942", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "若かりき is an archaic form of 若かった.\n\n[き](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%8D/#jn-50189) is an auxiliary\nverb indicating past tense. So 君若かりき is in the sentence-ending form and means\n_you were young_. As explained in the Weblio entry, し is a pre-noun form of き.\nThus 若かりし is usually followed by a noun, like 若かりしとき = when (subj) was young.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T14:12:50.780", "id": "95954", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T14:12:50.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95952", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "According to furigana\n[here](https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000296/files/43029_23560.html) and [this\nentry](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%A8%80%E8%91%89%E5%A4%9A%E3%81%8D%E3%81%AF%E5%93%81%E5%B0%91%E3%81%AA%E3%81%97-2236158),\nthis 科 is the same as 品 (しな), and it means something like \"grace\", \"nobility\"\nor \"fineness\". 言葉多きは科少なし means \"Being chatty is being undignified\".\n\n> ####\n> [しな【品／▽科／▽階】](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%93%81_%28%E3%81%97%E3%81%AA%29/#jn-99274)\n>\n> ７ 人の品格。人柄。品位。「さぶらふ中に―心すぐれたる限りを選 (え) りて」〈源・若菜上〉\n\n頼母しい is just an _ateji_ for 頼もしい (\"trustworthy\", \"reliable\"). 静にして奥ゆかしきこそ頼母しけれ\nis 静かで奥ゆかしいことが頼もしい(のだ) in modern Japanese (notice the ～こそ～けれ [_kakari-musubi_\npattern](https://chu.benesse.co.jp/qat/981_j.html)).", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T15:01:17.883", "id": "95955", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T15:29:37.093", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-22T15:29:37.093", "last_editor_user_id": "5010", "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95953", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think\n[とはいうものの](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF%E8%A8%80%E3%81%86%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%AE/)\nis close to English _that said_ (or maybe just sometimes). It is usually\nfollowed by something that adds reservations to the antecedent or things that\nare unexpected.\n\nしかし is more simple _but_.\n\n* * *\n\nExamples:\n\n * 4月だ。しかしまだ寒い。It is April, but it is still cold.\n * 4月だ。とはいうもののまだ寒い。\n\nBoth are fine (probably the latter sounds more natural).\n\n * 彼は働き者だ。しかし彼の弟は怠け者だ。He is hard-working, but his brother is lazy.\n\nHere しかし indicates the contrast between him and his brother, and とはいうものの\ncannot be used.\n\n * 駅は近い。とはいうものの歩いて30分はかかる。 The station is near. Yet it is a 30 minute walk.\n\nHere しかし may be not entirely impossible, but sounds much less natural. It\ngives a reservation to the _near_. (The first sentence in this paragraph may\ntranslate to: とはいうものの、ここで「しかし」が使えないわけではない)", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-23T00:50:41.167", "id": "95961", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-23T00:50:41.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95956", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "There is no such adjective as はずない. You don't say [Noun]は／がはずない or はずない[Noun].\n\nGrammatically, はず is a noun, and it is modified by a clause here. And が is\nomitted in two places.\n\n> ［［そんなわけ（が）ある］はず］（が）ない。\n\nわけ (訳) also being a noun, そんなわけはずない is ungrammatical.\n\nThe following is grammatical.\n\n> そんなはず（が）ない。", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T23:15:01.027", "id": "95959", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T23:15:01.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95957", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The word はず is a noun.\n\n * The literal meaning is _nock_ , as in the nock in an arrow. The string of the bow fits well into the nock of an arrow, and this \"fitting\" sense gradually gained overtones of \"naturally this is the way things go\", and from there, to \"this is the expectation of how things should go\". The idiomatic meaning might be something like \"expectation\".\n\nThe word わけ is a noun.\n\n * The literal meaning is _split_ , as in how something splits up or comes apart. This gave rise to a sense of \"taking something apart\", and from there, \"understanding how something comes apart\" → \"understanding the pieces\" → \"making a judgment or determination about something\". The idiomatic meaning might be something like \"way\" (as in, \"that's the way it is\") or \"reason\", depending on context.\n\nIn Japanese grammar, you can't just stick two nouns together and have it work\nas a relative clause.\n\nWhen you stick two nouns together, you usually get a new noun -- consider\nEnglish _dog_ + _house_ , or _egg_ + _box_ , or _reason_ + _expectation_ -- in\nall these cases, the second noun is the \"main\" noun, and the first noun tells\nus a bit about what kind of \"main\" noun we have. It's the same in Japanese:\n犬【いぬ】 + 小屋【こや】 is a kind of _koya_ for an _inu_ , 卵【たまご】 + 箱【はこ】 is a kind of\n_hako_ for a _tamago_ , and わけ + はず is a ...\n\nWell, I can't quite figure out what a \"reason expectation\" would be, but it's\ncertainly not what the speaker in the sample text means.\n\n* * *\n\nLet's look more closely at the sample sentence and break it down.\n\n> そんなわけあるはずない\n\n * そんな: \"that kind\". This must usually be followed by a noun.\n * わけ: \"way, reason\". Together with そんな, basically means \"like that\" or \"for that reason\".\n * ある: \"there is\". Used here to form the predicate of the relative clause そんなわけある. This whole clause -- not just the noun わけ -- modifies the following noun. As a translation into English, think of this like \"that something is/are\" -- the \"that\" is needed in English to indicate the subordinate clause.\n * はず: \"expectation\".\n * ない: \"there isn't\".\n\nFrom literal to idiomatic English:\n\n> そんなわけあるはずない \n> そんな || わけ || ある || はず || ない \n> that kind of || reason / way || there is || expectation || there isn't \n> there's no expectation that [things are] that way \n> it just won't be like that / it's just not like that\n\n* * *\n\n> _\" couldn't this ... just be 「そんなわけはずない」, with the ある completely removed?\"_\n\nIf we take out the ある, it would turn into something like this:\n\n> そんなわけはずない \n> そんな || わけ はず || ない \n> that kind of || reason expectation || there isn't \n> there isn't any such reason expectation\n\n... and I just can't make any further sense out of this.\n\nSo no, this doesn't work without the ある.", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-23T08:13:22.390", "id": "95964", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-23T08:13:22.390", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5229", "parent_id": "95957", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It’s not もの. It’s a combination of two particles, も and の.\n\n> ６人 **も** の人を殺傷した\n\nも here indicates that the speaker considers the said number to be large, as\nexplained in this [answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/56825/43676).\n\nThe following are both correct and neutral (meaning no emphasis) statements,\nthough some might consider the latter a bit redundant.\n\n> ６人を殺傷した\n\n> ６人の人を殺傷した\n\nThe following is also correct, but it would sound a bit too subjective for\nsomething coming from a news reader.\n\n> ６人も殺傷した", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-22T23:38:46.827", "id": "95960", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-22T23:38:46.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95958", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "The short answer is \"愉しい and 娯しい are alternative spellings only for novelists,\ncopywriters and lyricists. You probably should not use them.\"\n\nWhile there are many word pairs whose difference is imortant for ordinary\npeople (e.g., 速い vs 早い; 勤める vs 努める; 泣く vs 鳴く), there are also many spellings\nthat are used only in aesthetic writings to add some \"flavor\".\n\n愉しい belongs to the latter category. I am not surprised that everyone has a\ndisparate explanation for it. If you ask me, there is no fundamental\ndifference in meaning in the first place! The only \"difference\" is that it\nfeels somewhat literary and/or profound simply because it's uncommon. Perhaps\n愉しむ tends to be more commonly used in the contexts of \"classy\" hobbies (e.g.,\nwatch, whiskey, haiku), especially in ads, but that does not mean 愉しむ has a\nspecial meaning by itself. If you are not a novelist but use such kanji often\nin SNS, people might think you are odd. Personally, although I can easily read\n愉しい, I never use it when I write something.\n\nAs for 娯しい, it's simply so rare that I can't even read it without furigana.\nRather than worrying about or memorizing its nuance, it's better to think\nabout why such an unusual spelling is used.\n\nSee also: [Why do authors choose to use obscure/old ways to write\nwords?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/90207/5010)", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-23T04:44:49.803", "id": "95963", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-23T07:28:07.190", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-23T07:28:07.190", "last_editor_user_id": "5010", "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "The phrase それならそれでもいい basically means something like _\" if it's that, then\nthat's okay too\"_. What the \"it\" is depends on the context of the overall\nconversation.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-24T18:34:40.970", "id": "95977", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-24T18:34:40.970", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5229", "parent_id": "95965", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "> If I'm not mistaken in 学校文法, 大きな is a 連体修飾詞, and 深刻 a 形容動詞. Is that the\n> reason why they can be connected with な?\n\nI think this is one of the contributing factors. Two 形容動詞 in the same context\nwould be much more commonly connected with で or かつ, as in 冷静かつ迅速な対応, instead\nof 冷静な迅速な対応.\n\nBut more generally, the sequence of two attributives (including verbs) does\nnot make the sentence ungrammatical automatically. It can be understood as a\ncoordination of two, although it might happen mostly in speech. If it is a\nspoken sentence, you might transcribe it as\n\n> これが、大きな、深刻な問題になっています。\n\nIt could be an attempt to correct what you have just said. (I think this is\nwhat 学校文法 would discourage, since sentences that include correction can be\nseen as broken in that approach.) It could also be intentionally done to have\nan emphasis on the second part, somewhat similar to \"I did X, or rather [more\naccurately said], Y\".", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-24T08:24:01.277", "id": "95968", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-24T08:24:01.277", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95967", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "大きな is not an i-adjective nor a na-adjective but a fixed _rentaishi_ that\nnever conjugates. It doesn't have a te-form to begin with, so 大きな深刻な問題 is the\nonly option if you use 大きな (大きな modifies the noun phrase 深刻な問題 as a whole).\nYou cannot say 大きで深刻な問題 just as you can't say 色んで便利な道具.\n\n大きい深刻な問題 is not incorrect, but 大きな is [much more common than\n大きい](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/6694/5010) when used attributively.\nIf you want to emphasize something has two properties at the same time, using\nくて or で may be more explicit on that, so something like 大きくて深刻な問題 might be\nbetter. かつ is even more explicit.\n\nWith that said, I also feel 大きな深刻な or 大きくて深刻な sounds fairly redundant... What\nis a serious problem that isn't big?", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-24T09:12:57.983", "id": "95969", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-24T09:12:57.983", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5010", "parent_id": "95967", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I believe this is just a quotative って. Admittedly 'quotative' may make it\nsound narrower, but\n\n'If it gets out _that_ \"I'm low on energy because there were lots of peppers,\nwhich I hate, in my breakfast\"...'\n\n(I don't mind peppers myself but peppers for breakfast sounds weird)", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-24T13:28:08.653", "id": "95972", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-24T13:34:54.510", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-24T13:34:54.510", "last_editor_user_id": "9971", "owner_user_id": "9971", "parent_id": "95971", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "It’s somewhat difficult to tell for sure without the backstory but the\nsuggested translation looks a bit off. To me it sounds more like:\n\n“By saying she needs the answer… does it mean the invitation has to come from\nme _again_?”", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T00:21:02.163", "id": "95981", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T00:21:02.163", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3295", "parent_id": "95974", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "改めて is a lexicalized adverb derived from the verb 改める, whose meanings include\n“to mend”, “to correct”, etc. It doesn’t just mean “again” but has an\nimplication of “in a more proper way”.\n\nIn this context, the girl suggested that they walk home together, but she is\nexpecting a clear reply from the guy. He takes it as meaning she wants him to\nask her from his end, unambiguously. He might or might not have asked her\nearlier. If he did, it must have been done in a casual and not so obvious way.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T02:37:08.997", "id": "95986", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T02:37:08.997", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95974", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The copula だ and the quoting particle と.\n\n* * *\n\nと is used to repeat something someone has said, or what was written somewhere.\nEnglish uses quotative markers: 'He asked you: \"What is a quote?\"'. \nI used 'he'(pronoun) and 'ask'(a communication-related verb). Most languages\nrequire these two constituents to introduce a quotation, and Japanese is no\nexception.\n\nFurthermore, Japanese uses と and「」(rotated for vertical text) to mark\nquotations. \n_(Both と as well as the markers can be used in other ways.)_ For indirect\nquotations, no 「」are used.\n\nA quotation can be a sentence embedded into another one. If it happens that\nit's a propositional sentence, it will often end with だ. And that's how you\nend up with だと.\n\n> 太郎【たろう】は「綺麗【きれい】 **だ** 」 **と** 言【い】った\n\n'Tarou said: \"It is pretty\".'\n\nと is also used with verbs of thought, just like 思【おも】います. While with 言【い】う\n(verbs of saying) it was formal, for verbs of thought its use is casual.\n\nPutting everything together, we now know that your sentence uses:\n\n * Indirect quotation\n * A verb of thought\n * A proposition (by someone else, possibly)\n\nWe can conclude that:\n\n> Now, what time is it QUOTE think QUESTION\n>\n> \"What time do you think it is now?\".", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-24T16:43:51.800", "id": "95976", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-24T20:50:38.380", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-24T20:50:38.380", "last_editor_user_id": "5229", "owner_user_id": "54233", "parent_id": "95975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "In a polite way, そのコンピューターが高かったか定かではありません。\n\nIn another way, そのコンピューターが高かったかははっきり覚えていません。", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T02:04:17.087", "id": "95983", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T02:51:54.277", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-25T02:51:54.277", "last_editor_user_id": "36794", "owner_user_id": "36794", "parent_id": "95978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "The basic strategy of phrasing a straight question as a non-question (or an\nimplicit question) to make it polite works in Japanese, too, by making it less\npressing for an answer.\n\n * そのコンピューターはきっと高かったのでしょうね。\n * そのコンピューターはきっと高かったでしょうね。\n * そのコンピューターはきっと高かったでしょう。\n\nA falling tone would make it sound even less like a question. A rising tone\ndoes not necessarily make it less polite, however. I think it depends more on\nwhether you actually want an answer or not.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T03:20:20.753", "id": "95988", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T03:20:20.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "How about saying 「～(の/ん)でしょうか(ね)」, such as in:\n\n> そのコンピューターは、高かったんでしょうか(ね)。", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T10:02:21.403", "id": "95990", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T10:02:21.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9831", "parent_id": "95978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "This seems to be just quoted speech with the usual grammatical markers omitted\nwhich happens quite often in real speech. The “proper” sentence would probably\nlook like:\n\n> 「死ぬ、死ぬ」とか言わないの[…]", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T00:13:00.800", "id": "95980", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T00:13:00.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3295", "parent_id": "95979", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "> 死ぬ死ぬ言わないの\n\nIt means \"Don't say '死ぬ', '死ぬ', repeatedly.\" → \"Stop saying '死ぬ (I'll die /\nI'm gonna die)'.\" \nThe の at the end here expresses 命令 (command, imperative). See:\n\n * [What does そうするの mean here?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/47606/9831)\n\n* * *\n\n> 「[XYZ][XYZ]言う」\n\nThe quotative marker と is often omitted in this kind of phrase. It means \"to\nrepeat saying 'XYZ'.\" Some examples:\n\n> 「くれくれ言う」 \n> 「いつも金がないない言う」 \n> 「通販が買え買えしつこい」 \n> 「人に死ね死ね言う奴」 \n> 「実家に帰ると食え食え言われる」 \n> 「親が結婚しろしろうるさい」 \n> 「口ではやるやる言うけど実際はやらない」 \n> 「バカバカ言うな。バカって言うやつがバカなんだ」\n\nThis kind of phrase usually has an annoyed, or complaining tone. So\n「いつも問題がないない言うので安心している」「仕事を進んでやるやる言ってくれる」 would sound weird.\n\nと is not omitted when the XYZ part is not repeated:\n「くれ言う」「いつも金がない言う」「通販が買えうるさい」「人に死ね言う奴」「実家に帰ると食え言われる」「親が結婚しろうるさい」 etc. sound\nunnatural. (「バカ言うな」 means something different.)", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T02:22:05.590", "id": "95984", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T03:51:03.697", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-25T03:51:03.697", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "9831", "parent_id": "95979", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "The first translation sounds perfect for me. It must be an advice or criticism\nthrown toward someone who looks suspicious.\n\nTranslating the seconds one back, it becomes like 変なこと考えないで！, which could\nnever be an intention of the example you provide.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T02:23:53.637", "id": "95985", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T02:29:12.180", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-25T02:29:12.180", "last_editor_user_id": "36794", "owner_user_id": "36794", "parent_id": "95982", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "There is not much grammar here.\n\nいけない simply means “it’s not good”, “things don’t go well”, etc., and the part\nbefore から tells the reason the speaker thinks so. It’s not a grammaticalized\nexpression like `[V ない-stem]-なくてはいけない`.\n\nの is the explanatory particle and よ is a sentence-ending particle. This\ncombination of のよ is normally used by women. A man would have probably said\n変に意識するからいけないんだよ.\n\n変に doesn’t necessarily mean “strangely”. It could simply mean “excessively”.", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T03:05:36.473", "id": "95987", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T03:05:36.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95982", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "It depends on the construction. 給料はルーブルです is fine in casual speech, but when\nwritten in business context, it may look slightly sloppy (only slightly).\n給料はルーブルでもらっている and 給料はルーブル建てでもらっている are equally valid.\n\nOne might say the meaning is different - ルーブルで means transactions literally\ndone in rubles, while ルーブル建て can also mean transactions defined and displayed\nin rubles. (Either way what you actually get would have the same worth,\nthough.)\n\n<https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E5%BB%BA%E3%81%A6-586210>\n\n> ドル‐だて【ドル建て】 債権・債務の関係をドル貨に換算した金額で表示すること。", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T13:38:03.400", "id": "95994", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T13:50:00.607", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-25T13:50:00.607", "last_editor_user_id": "10531", "owner_user_id": "10531", "parent_id": "95992", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "しょうがない, or 仕方（が）ない, literally means there is no way or means. Therefore, the\nunderlying meaning of 〜てしょうがない is something like you have a certain feeling or\nemotion so strongly that you don’t know how to deal with it.\n\n古い is a property of the bicycle. You are just an observer and have no control\nover its degree. 古くてしょうがない sounds weird for this reason.\n\n乗りにくい may also be a property of the bicycle, but it’s more subjective. You are\nthe one thinking it is hard (for you) to ride. How much you think that is up\nto you. So, 乗りにくくてしょうがない sounds natural.\n\n気に入る is an emotion, but a passive one. It might have to do with its etymology.\nSomething “comes into” you. It’s not thought to be something you have control\nover. Though some people might say 気に入ってしょうがない is acceptable, it doesn’t quite\nsound natural. Besides, the particle after 自転車 should be が.\n\n> (?) この自転車が気に入ってしょうがない。\n\nCuriously, 好きでしょうがない sounds less bad. I guess you are a more active agent\nhere.\n\nYou can also use しょうがない with （〜て）ほしい or 〜たい.\n\n> この自転車が欲しくてしょうがない。\n\n> この自転車に乗りたくてしょうがない。", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-26T03:12:09.997", "id": "95999", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-26T07:08:48.887", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-26T07:08:48.887", "last_editor_user_id": "9831", "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95993", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This seems to be relevant\n\n[何とかなる -\nJisho.org](https://jisho.org/search/%E4%BD%95%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8B)\n\n何とかなる is an expression meaning \"to be able to manage somehow\". Consequently,\n何とかならないか is \"can't (we) manage it somehow\" or \"(we) need to do smth about it\"\n\nAll together it seems to \"(we) need to do smth about the morning rush\" or\n\"can't we do smth about the morning rush\"", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-25T22:08:02.480", "id": "95997", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-25T22:13:37.903", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-25T22:13:37.903", "last_editor_user_id": "39017", "owner_user_id": "39017", "parent_id": "95995", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "@[Yaroslav Fyodorov](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/39017/yaroslav-\nfyodorov)'s [answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/95997) and\n@[sundowner](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/45489/sundowner)'s\n[comment](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/95995#comment156311_95995)\nbrought my attention to the phrase\n[なんとかなる](https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%AA%E3%82%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8B),\nwhich means \"to be able to manage somehow or another\". From this information,\nI came up with an understanding of 朝のラッシュは何とかならないものか that is different from\n@Yaroslav Fyodorov's:\n\n> 朝のラッシュは何とかなる\n>\n> (lit.) somehow manage the morning rush\n>\n> The morning rush will turn out fine.\n\n> 朝のラッシュは何とかならないものか。\n>\n> I wish the morning rush will turn out fine.\n\nwhich makes much more sense than my translation attempts in the OP. This\nconcludes the analysis of the correct answer 「ａ ならない」.\n\n@sundowner's comment pointed out that 何とかなる does not have a 可能形 form because\nit is a non-volitional verb (無意志動詞, or 話者の意志が入らない動詞 as my textbook phrases it\nin its definition of ～ないもの（だろう）か) according to an\n[answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/95742) of theirs. Thus, it is\nsuperfluous to turn ならない into 「ｃ なれない」.\n\nAs for 「ｂ しない」, there does not\n[seem](https://jisho.org/search/%E4%BD%95%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B)\nto be a special phrase 何とかする, and する is neither a 可能動詞 nor a 無意志動詞, so 「ｂ しない」\nis not an acceptable option. Incidentally, I wonder if the interpretation\nprovided in Yaroslav Fyodorov's can be translated as\n\n> （？）朝のラッシュは何とかできないものか。\n>\n> Can't we do something about the morning rush?", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-26T07:44:18.420", "id": "96002", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-26T07:44:18.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34223", "parent_id": "95995", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "In short,\n\n * あまりの寒さ **に** 目を覚ました is idiomatic.\n * あまりの寒さ **で** 目を覚ました is equally natural.\n * There is a difference in nuance, but it is small enough and you shouldn't worry unless you are translating literary texts.\n\n* * *\n\nMy impression is that the usage of に is common when describing some\n**reaction**. E.g., あまりのうれしさに泣き出す (From #7 of\n[this](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%AB/#jn-166083)) is another\nexample of \"non-feeling\" verb.\n\n* * *\n\nSome other things vaguely relevant:\n\n * In English, I suppose it is possible to say _I wake up **to** the sound of something_ (even if not _to the coldness_ ).\n * The に in に怒る means more object of the anger, not reason. English _angry to_ should be unacceptable, but _anger towards someone_ should be fine.\n\nSo as you mention, it is ultimately a matter of getting accustomed to various\nusages, but in my opinion に shares much with _to_ , even when using _to_\nitself is not the norm in English expression.", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-27T03:03:12.813", "id": "96009", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-27T03:03:12.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45489", "parent_id": "95996", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I would say the most accepted accent is おだのぶなが{LHHHLL}. [#3, #4, and the\nsecond clip on Forvo]\n\nThat’s when his name is said in full. When the surname is omitted, it should\nbe either のぶなが{LHLL} or のぶなが{LHHH}. The flat, or flattened, accent may be more\ncommon now.\n\nIt seems some people use this flat accent even when they say his name in full,\nlike おだのぶなが{LHHHHH}. [#1 and #2] It sounds a bit awkward to me.\n\nActually, the same can be said about 豊臣秀吉 and 徳川家康, too.\n\n> とよとみひでよし{LHHHHHLL}\n>\n> ひでよし{LHLL} or ひでよし{LHHH}\n\n> とくがわいえやす{LHHHHHLL}\n>\n> いえやす{LHLL} or いえやす{LHHH}\n\nとよとみひでよし{LHHHHHHH} and とくがわいえやす{LHHHHHHH} sound even weirder than\nおだのぶなが{LHHHHH}. It may be simply because they are longer.\n\nFew parents choose to name their children のぶなが or いえやす, but ひでよし is not an\nuncommon name compared to the other two. They would be called ひでよし{LHLL}, not\nひでよし{LHHH}. It’s like the flattening of the accent gives it a special status.\n\n明智光秀 is a bit different.\n\n> あけちみつひで{LHHHHLL}\n>\n> みつひで{LHLL}\n\nFew people say みつひで{LHHH}. This may be a sign that he is not considered to be\nworthy of the special status the other three have earned.", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-26T04:04:34.507", "id": "96000", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-26T04:19:56.647", "last_edit_date": "2022-08-26T04:19:56.647", "last_editor_user_id": "43676", "owner_user_id": "43676", "parent_id": "95998", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "How about...\n\n「じゃあ、どうすりゃいいんだよ？教えろよ！」\n\n「じゃあ、どうしろってんだよ？言ってみろよ！」\n\n↑These both sound masculine. Females might say something like...\n\n「じゃあ、どうすりゃいいのよ？教えてよ！」\n\n「じゃあ、どうしろってのよ？言ってみなさいよ！」", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-08-26T08:56:42.067", "id": "96004", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-26T08:56:42.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9831", "parent_id": "96003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]