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How does reduplication of words work in Japanese?
Recently I've heard words like ただただ and ゆっくりゆっくり showing up. I guessed that saying adverbs one more time over again puts more emphasis on them, but I'm not at all sure if that's true. (Always means ...
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Meaning of ご帰還あそばれなされた [duplicate]
Full sentence:
「俺様がご帰還あそばれなされたぞ！」
I think this sentence means something alike to: "I have returned!"
My main problem with this sentence is the usage of あそばれなされた.
From my understanding, this ...
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Difference between 聞こえる and 聞かれる / 見える and 見られる
I came across this problem when I was studying, and I couldn't really understand the difference between using the passive form of 聞く or 見る and using the verbs 聞こえる and 見える, considering that, in my ...
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What does 振り回して mean in this context?
I just started learning japanese a few months ago, and my japanese is a little basic, I can't understand some kanjis yet... Hope someone can help me... thanks!
I was reading a manga, and while I was ...
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What's is the difference between these two forms?
So for what I knew the "potential form" of the verbs are for example:
話せる for 話す, a godan verb.
見られる for 見る, an ichidan verb.
But then I find this form for the ichidan verbs that seems to mean the ...
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Adjective + 出す？
Recently I watched this and the translator gives me something I didn't know.
I know that a verb + 出す means to start.....
走り出す - To start to run
逃げ出す - To start to escape
登り出す - To start to ...
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What is potential form?
I am in my fourth online Japanese class at UMUC Asia and we just started learning about potential form of verbs. I was wondering if there is an easy way to explain what it is? My teacher's explanation ...
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What conjugation of 願う is 願わくば, and what does it mean here?
This is my first post here, I'm sorry if I didn't follow any formatting or posting rules.
Original sentence, from a character's monologue:
願わくばこの時間が少しでも長く続くことを。。。
The English translation I have (...
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Differentiating honorific passive and potential conjugations of 出る
Given the following sentence structure, I am wondering how one differentiates the usage of 出る in the following.
明日のパーティーに出られますか？
The usage of the partial に and the られる suggests a honorific ...
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What is って doing in this sentence?
From Noir, Episode 2 (anime).
I don't get what the って is doing in this sentence. For context, the father came home early from work. He quickly answers his wife in the first sentence then in the ...
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Usage and meaning of [passive verb]-てみれば
I am familiar with the set phrase 「言われてみれば」 as a way to say "Now that you say that", but as I examine the phrase further, the phrase structure strikes me as strange. The 〜てみる conjugation is commonly ...
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What is the らせ form of a verb?
I'm trying to understand this:
賞品？おそらく！リナちゃん.....私の後ろの笑い声輝くんがたくさんで黙らせ
The last word, 黙らせ, is confusing. Is this a combination of different forms?
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