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Thread: Question about causative, nominalising and state of being(?) Post: Question about causative, nominalising and state o... Hi guys, thanks for all the answers. I keep meaning to reply but I haven't had the chance. I'll hopefully get round to it later (got a few more questions, too!). |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 3 | 2,557 | 2009-12-08, 7:10 am | ||
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Thread: Question about causative, nominalising and state of being(?) Post: Question about causative, nominalising and state o... Okay, a few things I'm always coming across, doesn't really affect my understanding of the sentence dramatically but find quite annoying and always promise myself I'll eventually ask someone about. 1... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 3 | 2,557 | 2009-11-28, 5:45 pm | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Fillanzea Wrote:Virtua_Leaf Wrote:中国国家機関が、中国でのオンラインゲームビジネスにおいて、外資企業の運営業務への出資や関与が禁止を発表している。 Is the final verb "発表している" the subject of 中国国家機関が or 出資や関与が? I'm assuming the former but then would that mea... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,835 | 2009-10-23, 9:58 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? I so painfully needed this が explanation/study. Truth is, when I first started Japanese (around 2 years ago) I didn't so much open the door to it but barge through the wall and twist my ankle on the w... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,835 | 2009-10-23, 8:30 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Jarvik7 Wrote:"熊食べる？" I could be asking if you want to eat some bear, if you do eat bear, or if bears eat <something implied by the context>. Depending on what particle I dropped the meaning di... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,835 | 2009-10-21, 2:52 pm | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Thanks a lot for these responses and links everyone. I'll only comment on one post for now since I'm way behind in studying. Jarvik7 Wrote:noun<emphasizer> verb still makes no sense. What is t... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,835 | 2009-10-21, 2:13 pm | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? pm215 Wrote:I think you're just obviously wrong ;-). If you want to back up your argument you need to produce an example of a Japanese sentence which includes "X が" where X is *not* the subject of the... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,835 | 2009-10-21, 12:38 pm | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Codexus Wrote:If it was just for emphasis then you would be able to say 「りんごが食べました。」 ;) No I'm not saying it can replace other particles or it's a multi-use emphasis word like こそ or something. りんごを食べ... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,835 | 2009-10-21, 11:11 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? bennyb Wrote:Read "making sense of Japanese" if you want a good essay that explains the usage of は and が in terms you can understand. That's a solid book. I have and it is. :) But the Rubin dude still... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,835 | 2009-10-21, 10:24 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Over the past few days I've been studying something that's always bugged me, the particle が. What does it really mean? What does it translate to? Every time I hear/read it it's like an unnecessary "Ga... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,835 | 2009-10-21, 9:44 am | ||
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Thread: Understand what I read but forget as I go along the sentence? Post: Understand what I read but forget as I go along th... For the sake of comparison I just came up with a bunch of English sentences using the 'colon' way of thinking. Complete random: trainspotting: cool pastime the making of pottery: comparatively diffic... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 15 | 3,589 | 2009-10-17, 3:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Understand what I read but forget as I go along the sentence? Post: Understand what I read but forget as I go along th... wccrawford Wrote:Yeah, I get the same thing when reading Japanese. I need to pay special attention to keeping the rest of the sentence in my head while puzzling out the rest of it. Your brain can on... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 15 | 3,589 | 2009-10-17, 2:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Understand what I read but forget as I go along the sentence? Post: Understand what I read but forget as I go along th... crayonmaster Wrote:One good explanation I read was that は acts like ":". so... 私の名前はＪｕｄｙです。 My name: Judy. That's how I usually think of it. That's interesting. That's the kind of thinking that seems... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 15 | 3,589 | 2009-10-17, 12:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Understand what I read but forget as I go along the sentence? Post: Understand what I read but forget as I go along th... Perhaps I should just take this back to basics and study the definition of 'topic.' If I was to take the (completely random) sentence of, "Jet-skiing is popular in France." what is the topic here? Wh... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 15 | 3,589 | 2009-10-17, 12:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Understand what I read but forget as I go along the sentence? Post: Understand what I read but forget as I go along th... Thanks a lot for these responses everyone. strugglebunny Wrote:Ha. I do this in English (my native language.) Especially with boring and long winded text books. It sucks to have no memory/attention s... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 15 | 3,589 | 2009-10-17, 11:12 am | ||
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Thread: Understand what I read but forget as I go along the sentence? Post: Understand what I read but forget as I go along th... This will sound really stupid but it sort of seems like I have a 1 second memory span when reading sentences sometimes. For instance, I was just on Youtube and saw the sentence: 10 月 16 日は世界食料デー。 It... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 15 | 3,589 | 2009-10-17, 8:11 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese audio rips Post: Japanese audio rips I'd just like to say thanks for the uploads. I've been trying to find audio rips of animes for a while and I've been having a surprisingly tough time. I don't suppose anyone knows how I could go abou... |
Virtua_Leaf | Group study | 17 | 8,599 | 2009-10-16, 5:38 pm | ||
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Thread: About Relative Clause Post: About Relative Clause yudantaiteki Wrote:Virtua_Leaf Wrote:I'd actually be pleased if the likes of あげた女の子 could be seen as either "the girl that gave" or "the girl that is given" as it originally struck me as the former ye... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,025 | 2009-10-08, 3:54 am | ||
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Thread: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses existence or event? Post: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses ex... The "target of action," huh. Kind of as I thought. I get it now. Thanks a lot everyone for the explanations. I guess the に in this case, then, could be substituted for the で, just with different mea... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 21 | 2,953 | 2009-10-08, 3:41 am | ||
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Thread: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses existence or event? Post: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses ex... yudantaiteki Wrote:Virtua_Leaf Wrote:I personally find dissecting structures and grammars vital. I agree. I took the "don't focus too much on grammar" approach at first, and while I was able to make ... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 21 | 2,953 | 2009-10-05, 11:24 am | ||
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Thread: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses existence or event? Post: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses ex... I personally find dissecting structures and grammars vital. I took the 'don't waste time on textbooks, you have to "feel" it by yourself' route and, while I learnt a load of words and readings, it nev... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 21 | 2,953 | 2009-10-02, 4:00 am | ||
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Thread: How long have you been audio immersed 100% (or close to it?) Post: How long have you been audio immersed 100% (or clo... Interesting. You're really managing to do it 100%. I think I should try a lot more myself. I originally bought my iPod for the sole purpose of Japanese audio but I wind up listening to Cradle of Filt... |
Virtua_Leaf | General discussion | 24 | 2,887 | 2009-10-02, 3:48 am | ||
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Thread: About Relative Clause Post: About Relative Clause wildweathel Wrote:This is one of the most irritating quirks of Japanese to native speakers of Indoeuropean languages. 食べた人 probably means "the person who ate," 食べたりんご probably means "the apple mis... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,025 | 2009-10-01, 12:59 pm | ||
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Thread: About Relative Clause Post: About Relative Clause Let me just think of an example. Say... Okay, first up let me just use the example sentence again and tweak it a bit. 私ががフットボールの切符をあげた父さん In あげた父さん here, "dad" = indirect object. Now say if I want... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,025 | 2009-10-01, 12:53 pm | ||
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Thread: About Relative Clause Post: About Relative Clause Ok, so... Should あげた女の子 always be looked at as (あげた) (女の子)? Whereas 話した女の子 is look at as (話した女の子)? Do things change based on the subject? Does 食べた人 always mean "the person that ate," until a subjec... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,025 | 2009-10-01, 12:18 pm | ||
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Thread: About Relative Clause Post: About Relative Clause In A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, it gives the following sentence as an example of relative clause: トムがフットボールの切符をあげた女の子 (the girl to whom Tom gave a football ticket) I find this slightly co... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,025 | 2009-10-01, 11:41 am | ||
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Thread: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses existence or event? Post: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses ex... Thanks a lot for the replies guys! Thanks for the explanation, Pauline. It made for an interesting read. But is 迎える DEFINITELY a motion verb? The definition where I got that sentence from was: １ 人の... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 21 | 2,953 | 2009-10-01, 11:14 am | ||
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Thread: Playing RPGs to improve your reading pace Post: Playing RPGs to improve your reading pace Currently playing Mario & Luigi 3 for DS. Feels cool to be able to play a game and understand it before it's been released in English. |
Virtua_Leaf | Learning resources | 87 | 21,399 | 2009-09-26, 10:17 am | ||
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Thread: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses existence or event? Post: に Vs. で - how do you know when a verb expresses ex... 友達の家にいる 友達の家でパーティーがある That's simple. But I just found this sentence over at Yahoo Dictionary: 「旧友を駅に迎える」 Presumably に expresses location here but surely 迎える doesn't express existence, right? How co... |
Virtua_Leaf | The Japanese language | 21 | 2,953 | 2009-09-26, 10:13 am | ||
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Thread: crayon shin-chan creator dead? Post: crayon shin-chan creator dead? That's such a shame. Only 51 too. His show was like an amazing cross between South Park and Arthur the Aardvark. |
Virtua_Leaf | Off topic | 5 | 2,689 | 2009-09-20, 4:52 pm | ||
