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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread 進める as in 受験をしなくても有名私立大学に進める is the potential form of 進む. You don't use the transitive 進める to people (except troops etc.). |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2016-05-27, 5:02 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-05-04, 8:32 pm)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: (2016-05-04, 12:06 am)rainmaninjapan Wrote: Thus, I don't see how the original sentence can be considered correct, or I'm confusing something. Maybe yo... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2016-05-05, 3:04 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I was wrong. English is more familiar with reflexive use in a sense, since many transitive-intransitive pairs share the same form. |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2016-05-04, 4:52 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Apart from English, reflexive use of verbs is not rare. If you are an English speaker, the passive-like structure may feel more familiar to you. |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2016-05-04, 4:43 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-04-29, 11:37 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: レベル：総合的な能力の高さを示す値 : Is 値 supposed to be read as あたい here? Yes, unless it means price of something. e.g. 株が値(ね)を下げる: stock prices drop Quote:How do you know th... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2016-05-03, 2:49 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-02-12, 8:51 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: 白鷺城と白露城とも呼ばれています You might have wanted to say 白鷺城とも 白露城とも 呼ばれている. |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2016-02-12, 11:41 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread わかる is already that kind of conjugation of わく. |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-12-27, 8:32 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread You seems to have learned it with その and あの switched. (As for potential forms, there's actually a more complicated story. If a verb lacks the potential form depends on if it's a non-volitional intra... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-12-26, 8:19 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2015-12-22, 11:38 am)Kuroro Wrote: 分かりました！私はあの命令形を知りませんでした、だからその句の意味も分かれませんでした。本当にありがとう^_−☆ わかる doesn't have the potential form, in other words, わかれる doesn't mean "can understand". And, you use その... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-12-25, 7:09 pm | ||
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Thread: 目 and 瞳 Post: RE: 目 and 瞳 瞳（ひとみ）stands for specifically eyes of human beings or animals. 目 （め）stands for organs like eyes or a part of pattern that looks like an eye. So, 目 has more broader sense. |
viharati | The Japanese language | 4 | 836 | 2015-12-13, 1:53 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread そう思えば長かったね means "If I think of it as long, I find it was", and it implies the speaker didn't find it until someone told him so. Sentence ending particle* な / ね represent that the speaker has impresse... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-12-06, 9:59 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread 聖杯 なる: called (check how it's grammatically connected and don't say "なる has multiple meanings" or so) 某か: someone/something なり: such as 類: kind 切なる願いはあれども 聖杯なる某かなり自分以外の誰かに望む類のものではない Although I have a... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-11-14, 1:32 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) If you only live an ordinary life, you could save kanjis, but you couldn't educate doctors or engineers any more. You can still learn it through foreign languages, but that will divide people and make... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,147 | 2015-10-28, 12:26 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread poblequadrat Wrote:I came across the line いつも知らんプリ in a song. It's a liaison of 知らぬ and 振り. |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-10-21, 1:12 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread HolyKotor Wrote:This is more of a general question rather than a "what does this mean" question, but I recently wrote on lang-8 "いや、昨日の話を忘れてくれ" and it was corrected as ”いや、昨日の話は忘れてくれ”. Would anyone mi... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-09-15, 9:04 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread drdunlap Wrote:豆知識EDIT: Also, by the way, the な attached to the end of "な-adjectives" and the な as a form of だ are grammatically different. Is it referring to difference between, let's say, （自分が）お母さんな... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-07-13, 8:14 pm | ||
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Thread: number + の Post: number + の hkoros Wrote:what if you remove the の? ４７都道府県があります。 Is this still correct grammatically? Yes. Numbers work as an adverb by themselves. Quote:Or how about this situation: 日本の四つの大きな島をに 行った. can we remov... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 5 | 878 | 2015-06-15, 7:19 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread That example makes me think novels are not necessarily the best material to learn a language because authers can be as creative as to aptly express what ordinary people can't. The oddness remains lev... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-06-03, 7:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Explanatory んです Post: Explanatory んです I think OP is already content with everyone's answer, so I'm going to complement my comment about よ. 試合が見たいんですよ↓ When I wrote it, I imagined falling intonation, which stands for, after all, a bit of... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 11 | 1,400 | 2015-05-31, 4:04 am | ||
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Thread: Explanatory んです Post: Explanatory んです Quote:お金があったら、車をかうんですけど。 That example is not really helpful for the purpose of teaching のだ sentences because the one without のだ isn't different either. のだ sentences are essentially an answer to a "wh... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 11 | 1,400 | 2015-05-29, 10:14 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I Wrote:3. よこす has more or less sense of nuisance. I'm reading it and find it excessive. I'd like to correct it. In a nut shell, a robbery would say 金をよこせ in stead of 金をくれ for "give me money". Quote:5... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-05-13, 11:29 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread 主人思いなヤツなんじゃあ (のだ form): S/he is a person who is loyal to her/his master きっと: I believe 寂しくて: (I would) be lonely and つい... : thoughtlessly (do something) むやみに 探すより(か)(は) あのオヤジの遠眼鏡に まかすんじゃあ (のだ form... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-05-13, 7:44 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread splatt Wrote:E.g. In Japanese you might say 田中さんが鉛筆を貸した but it's politer to say 田中さんが鉛筆を貸してくれた。 Eminem2 Wrote:But that's for direct communication about requesting or giving between just the two people... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-05-07, 1:23 am | ||
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Thread: は Vs. が Post: は Vs. が manman2a Wrote:犬が好きです。This means that dog is in the "state of being" (which is embedded) of being desirable. The topic wa would decide who it is desirable to. Who likes what doesn't have to do with to... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,567 | 2015-05-04, 10:44 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread learningkanji Wrote:ひょっどすて and ねえだべか in それはひょっどすて筋斗雲ではねえだべかっ！？ こっだら in こっだらどこでなにすてるだ？ こっちさこねえでけろー あれまやんだー おっかねえよ That's a pseudo dialect associated with areas from Tohoku to Kanto. 1. ねぇだべか is a slip-... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-04-21, 9:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Use of ぞ and ぜ sentence-enders in real life Post: Use of ぞ and ぜ sentence-enders in real life In addition to the above, ぜ can follow a volitional form of a verb while ぞ don't. That's a grammatical difference. Historically ぜ came from ぞ + い, which is seen in …かい？ etc. It conveys light-hearted t... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 3 | 801 | 2015-03-29, 9:12 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread 1. それ… あんねん、あんねん 2. 試合、試合終わってからその… 3. 「ぐう」って やってるやつ (<-- I don't get what he means) 4. その… 「おれ、タップしてへんねん」って ゆうてるけど |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-03-15, 5:15 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread CK_Byuu Wrote:What's ケツが ヒョーンて in here? Is ケツ = 尻? Yes, and probably, the rear was protrusive or so. |
viharati | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,288 | 2015-03-12, 7:50 am | ||
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Thread: 「～たがる」について (About ~tagaru) Post: 「～たがる」について (About ~tagaru) EDICT Wrote:たがる auxiliary verb / godan る verb wanting to (verb) (not used in the first person, combination of ~tai and ~garu) That dictionary is wrong. NinKenDo Wrote:What does ... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,701 | 2015-01-14, 3:12 am | ||
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Thread: 「～たがる」について (About ~tagaru) Post: 「～たがる」について (About ~tagaru) (I wonder why they teach ほしがる・たがる to a beginner, because it's difficult to master.) It has two meanings: (1) to act as if you want something (similar to ～しようとする:to try to do) (2) (a kind of rhetoric ... |
viharati | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,701 | 2015-01-13, 4:20 am | ||
