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is the use of 突っ込まないで considered rude?
ごめん。深く突っ込まないで
In this context and in general, I wonder is the meaning more like "please don't be noisy and leave it", or "haha, it's nothing to worry about!"?
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Meaning of 融着 in metal plating
Context: production of a copper-plated stainless steel sheet (Ｃｕめっきステンレス鋼板)
What is the meaning of 融着 in the following sentence?
多重巻きパイプ造管時のロールとの摺動によるＣｕめっき層のはく離を抑制し、Ｃｕめっき層同士を加熱により融着させる際に起こる未融着部（...
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Explanation of でもあります？ [duplicate]
I saw this in my Genki I book and I don’t quite understand how to use でもあります. Also, how would I say this informally? パットはアメリカ人でもある？
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What does こした mean?
In the sentence:
まあいいや、(列車は)空いているにこした事はないし
What does こした mean? Is this 越す or 鼓する or something other?
And does まあいいや mean "well" or "whatever"?
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Difference between 泊まる and 留まる [duplicate]
I'm just studying Japanese, and i know that 泊まる is like you Staying a night like hotel / some place that temporary , but i just found 留まる is also meaning stay/staying too in Basic Kanji book , but i ...
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Meaning of 世界観に入り込む in the following sentence
The following sentence is taken from the afterword of the final volume of a manga:
そんな風に名残惜しさを感じたり、世界観に入り込んで描くことができたのも、たくさんの人に読んでいただけて、キャラクターや作品が好きだと言ってもらえてものすごい励みになったことが一因だと思います。
I understand the ...
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How do you say " 14 days left and will finish the vacation "?
I'm a little bit confused , I tried to find a good answer of how to say 2 days left +verb
like 2 days left and will start dieting
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2 minutes left and will be ready
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14 days left and will ...
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What is the meaning of 壊れる when referring to a person?
Context: a mangaka is talking about a character of a manga who is a psychopathic killer called Crazy Rascal.
そのネーミングに関しては、僕が個人的に尊敬している、とある“プロ”の方のあだ名？からいただきました。ご本人は当然こんなにぶっ壊れていませんのでご注意を。
What is ...
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Meaning of 感じる in sexual context
Context: a character of a manga is being interviewed in the extra section at the end of the manga. She receives a question about a chapter in which she had sex with another character after talking to ...
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what is "progressive form" in japanese?
I am making a Japanese verb conjugation app and can not seem to find the Japanese equivalent of "Progressive Form"
For example
辞書形 = dictionary form
命令形 = imperative form
可能形 = potential form
etc.
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Meaning of する verb in 「その少女は小さい口元をしている」
I was looking up in the dictionary, and came across a sentence like this:
その少女は小さい口元をしている。
From what I understand, している means "is doing" or "does". So the girl "does" her little mouth?
Then I ...
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How do 自他 triplets of related verbs work?
I thought this had been asked before (possibly by me), but I couldn't find it. I'm wondering why for certain verbs/words, instead of just a 自他 pair, there is a triplet (or possibly more) where two of ...
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Do all the meanings of 掛ける and 掛かる tally?
WWWJDIC does not tally their meanings of 掛ける and 掛かる so i find it hard for a beginner like me to properly learn these 2 words..
Do all these meanings of 掛ける and 掛かる tally: (is this list correct):
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