Questions tagged [rendaku]
連濁. A phonological phenomenon in Japanese by which the first consonant of the second component of a compound word often becomes voiced (k→g, s→z, t→d and h→b).
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How does one pronounce "11.53 cups"?
I am uncertain how to handle the combination of the fraction, counter, and rendaku.
Is it じゅういっぱいてんごじゅうさん or maybe じゅういちてんごじゅうさんばい?
It occurred in this sentence here:
全日本【ぜんにほん】コーヒー協会【きょうかい】の2020年【...
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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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Is there rendaku with consecutive counters?
In this Asahi article about a bicycle-powered knitting machine, the following sentence appeared:
[1足分]{いっそくふん}を[編]{あ}むのに[10分]{じゅっぷん}[程度]{ていど}こぐという
It takes about 10 minutes of pedaling to knit one ...
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Is there rendaku in 感動話?
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感動話は“感動【かんどう】”と書【か】かずにいかに心【こころ】が震【ふる】え��かを伝【つた】えよ
Don't use the word "moving" to describe a touching story, but tell how your heart was shaken.
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Trying to figure out the Japanese tale's sentence
ある年のこと、大雨が切れめなく、ザアザアふったので、村は水びたしになってしまい、村人は、 とてもこまりました。
I don't understand the second part "村は水びたしになってしまい". I figured out that this means "The village ended up becoming dipped in water....
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Is どこ住み ever pronounced どこずみ?
I have been saying どこ住み{ずみ} as in ～さん、どこずみですか？ because I seem to remember the first few times I heard the word used by other people it was pronounced as such. And I haven't had any issues making ...
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Rendaku (連濁) in graffiti?
I was wondering about the reading of 糞社会 in the graffiti in this image:
ふんしゃかい
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ふんじゃかい?
There does not seem to be an easy way to know, as the Wikipedia page tells us:
In modern Japanese, rendaku ...
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Rendaku in 一本気 but not in 本気
As I'm encountering more words with rendaku, I thought I started to understand it, but I came across an example that does not make sense to me.
Why is 気 voiced き in 元気 and 本気, but is voiced ぎ in 一本気 ?
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Interaction between pitch accent and mi-prefixation
I'm interested in the ways in which words that can be prefixed with mi- might vary in accent. For instance, both mi-kokoro and mi-gokoro are attested (albeit rare and highly archaic), but mi-kokoro is ...
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How do you pronounce 電報船? Is is でんぽうふね、でんぽうぶね or でんぽうせん?
I recently started to read 'Made in Abyss' and unfortunately is doesn't contain any furigana, which sometimes makes it hard for me to understand. So I came across the word 電報船, which refers to a mail ...
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Why こころ is read as ごころ? [duplicate]
What's the difference between the Kanji 心(kokoro) and the kanji inserted after another kanji like in 乙女心 (otomegokoro)? Why the kanji in the first example is read as kokoro and in the another exemple ...
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How do I read 係?
I came across these sentences in the same manga.
[1] よつばはこびがかりな！
[2] しんぶんとってくるかかりか？
[3] よつばちゃん新聞係？
I'm guessing it's 係 "person in charge" in these sentences. Is it がかり whenever it is a verb stem /...
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Why is Katakana not pronounced Katagana?
I am a beginner in Japanese and I've noticed that when two words are compounded into one word the first letter of the second word changes.
hira + kana = hiragana
ko + hayashi = kobayashi
ori + kami ...
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Deriving the "p" and "b" sound from "h"
This question refers to the hiragana notation of different syllables, where you indicate the "soft-spoken" or "hard-spoken" variants of syllables by marking them with a small ...
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Why are voiced and unvoiced consonants both acceptable for the same word?
It's common enough to see two possible pronunciations of a word in Japanese.
For example, take the word 容態 (meaning 'condition' or 'state').
According to 三省堂 スーパー大辞林, both ようたい and ようだい are ...
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