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Reading a manga at the moment and I encountered the following sentence: オスといると、それこそネズミ算式に増えちゃいますから If ねずみ算 means to 'multiply like rats' what is the significance of adding 式に増える? I am also...
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1 answerFirst of all, I want to apologize for my first attempt at this question (which you can still find down below); however, as others seem to be interested in it...
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2 answerTaken from 「イエスタデイをうたって3」: Three guys of an indie band are having a talk about the current situation of their band and the place where they usually have their performances. While...
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1 answerI've noticed that sometimes the hiragana の can be shortened to ん. For example, 部屋のなか → 部屋んなか (inside of the room)俺のうち → 俺んち (my house)俺のところ → 俺んとこ (my place)(More examples...
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3 answerAfter reading @jkerian's comment in this post, I started thinking about this. Here's the comment in full:On a side note, all days ending in '4' are also irregular,...
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2 answerAre kanji typically for numbers used in times and dates? For example, would "七" and "十五" in the first sentence, and "九" and "三" in the second sentence be normal...
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3 answerWhat does the けん mean in this sentence? Is this a dialect?やってけんのかな...
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1 answerIn In actual Japanese society, how often are second-person pronouns used?, the accepted answer says:You can either refer to a person by the name like 山田, which is not...
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3 answerI was having trouble translating this sentence, specifically the last part:だが、そう長く生きていないとはいえ、人生の半分以上をここで暮らし、また言葉を操る『言ノ葉使い』である僕には彼がまだここに来て日の浅い使用人であることが分かった。I understand that 「長く生きていないとはいえ」 means something along the lines of 'although I haven't lived that long', however I'm not sure...
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1 answerI don't understand the meaning of this sentence from Kawabata's "Snow Country Miniature":君{きみ}とそう見劣{みおと}りしない女{おんな}でないと後{あと}で君{きみ}と会った{あった}時{とき}、心外{しんがい}じゃないか。This is what Shimamura says to the woman he finds out he is in love with after...
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