Questions tagged [pronunciation]
発音. How the Japanese language is pronounced. For questions about which readings to use for particular kanji, use the "readings" tag instead.
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Pitch accent of -り adverbs
This is a followup to the question For which parts of speech does a 平板/heiban–vs–尾高/odaka pitch accent contrast (word-final H(-H) vs H(-L)) exist? asked by Lover of Structure
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I'm wondering if there ...
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Is Japanese pronunciation altered in songs? If so, how?
Is Japanese pronunciation altered in songs? If so, how?
Candidates for things which I'm wildly guessing might be affected are:
the realization of /r/: [l] vs [ɾ]
the realization of word-internal /g/: ...
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What is with the different pronounciation of "janai" that consistently happens in "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure"?
In most of the Japanese I was heard and taught, じゃない (and all its variations) would be pronounced exactly as one would imagine. But in Jojo's, consistently, the characters seem to pronounce it (and ...
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How to say/pronounce "[City Name] proper" in Japanese
According to google translate, for example if you wanted to say "Chicago proper" (as in within city limits and not the nearby suburbs), you would say "シカゴ市内". Is this correct?
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Adding emphasis to "was"
I know (at least I think I do) that you can add contrast to verbs by adding は e.g. 食べてはいる = "I'm eating it (not drinking it/rubbing it on my skin etc)".
I'm wondering, specifically, how you ...
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浸る as 「ひたる」or 「つかる」
As the title says, I was wondering the difference between the two pronunciations: I encounter them in the first case as
「その思い出に浸る{ひたる}」
and the second is
「水に浸かる{つかる}」
but I do not know when one ...
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How does the "jidaigeki Japanese" used in Shogun differ from actual speech in the 1600s?
The dialog in the Shōgun series (2024) is supposedly in "old" Japanese, but here on Japanese.SE we know better: it's actually "jidaigeki Japanese" as spoken in Japanese period ...
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のは, ので, のか with stress on の?
In a Youtube video, I came across various instances of の being stressed where I wouldn't have expected it to be. As far as I am aware, downsteps in pitch don't (ever?) occur directly after nominalizer ...
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How would you say the name Shireen Durrani in japanese?
My name is Shireen Durrani and my name is Pakistani.
Would it be 『シリーン・ドゥラニ』? Or 『シリーン・ヅラニ』? Would the last name come first?
I am not very experienced in japanese so please explain
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Why do Japanese people pronouce the word "Mach" as マッハ instead of マッカ?
Why do Japanese people pronouce the word "Mach" as マッハ instead of マッカ?
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江戸 ... is it pronounced Edo or Yeddo or both?
I had always heard it as "Yeddo", but then the other night the Japanese actors in the new Shōgun series seem to favor the un-glided "Edo," and looking it up on jisho.org I find ...
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Kuru past tense conjugation
While doing DuoLingo today, I came across a section where the app pronounced 来なかった as kinakatta. When I selected that in the dictionary on my iPhone and had it pronouce it, it also said kinakatta. ...
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Is there a pitch accent difference between the two 〜たって derivations?
In particular say:
“東京に行ったって言ったの？” => “He said he went to Tokyo?”
“東京に行ったって何も変わらない” => “Going to Tokyo won't change anything.”
Are these two “〜たって” coming from different sources, one ...
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Why Chinese "h" often corresponds to Sino-Japanese "k"? [closed]
Shanghai is Shanhai in Japanese / しゃんはい
However, 深海 is shinkai (shēnhǎi in Chinese).
Why does it seem like the Japanese switched the letter "h" to "k"? I know the kana, and "h&...
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Why does 本仕込 contain rendaku but 本絞り does not?
Both words 本仕込 (ほんじこみ）and 本絞り（ほんしぼり contain the prefix ほん - the root words are しこみ and しぼり. They are morphologically similar nouns, so I am wondering whether this specific instance of rendaku is ...
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