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Difference between 答え　and 回答. - LittleKey - 2012-04-12 Is there a difference between them? And for the verb forms, 答える　and 回答する? Difference between 答え　and 回答. - kitakitsune - 2012-04-12 Your verb forms are correct and the difference between them is that 答え is a native Japanese word and 回答 comes from Chinese. While they essentially mean the same thing, Sino-Japanese vocabulary is generally considered more formal than native Japanese vocabulary and so they appear more often in writing and formal speech. Whereas the native Japanese vocabulary is found more often in everyday speech. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_kotoba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary Difference between 答え　and 回答. - LittleKey - 2012-04-13 Very informative, thanks!