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「手はなしちゃダメよ！」
I'm having difficulty figuring out the conjugation used here, and can't figure out the verb.
It means something like "Don't let go!"
Thanks for all the help 
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Zarxrax wrote:
「手はなしちゃダメよ！」
I'm having difficulty figuring out the conjugation used here, and can't figure out the verb.
It means something like "Don't let go!"
Thanks for all the help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_g … F_onbin.29 Scrolling down to 'colloquial contractions' will help you a lot in the future. There's a lot more than what's listed there, though...
cloudstrife543 wrote:
anyone know if this kanji is used very frequently? Or more specifically fro this word?
贅沢 ぜいたく sorry for the small text
Yes, "贅沢" is the proper way to write it. Due to sheer laziness you'll sometimes see people just write it as ぜい沢 though. 贅沢 is definitely a common word, but the kanji itself is rare, and I can only think of many two or three words that use it. 贅言 isn't too rare, nor is 贅沢品. Coincidentally I actually used '贅沢三昧' just a few days ago 
other than those four words I can't think of any other words that use the character, but I am sure you could find more if you did some dictionary-digging.
Actually, one of the reasons that some people just use hiragana for the first character is that since it's not too commonly used they often forget some of the strokes. But still, 贅沢 looks much more proper to me, and no one will have trouble reading it.
cloudstrife543 wrote:
ある友達は飼っていた犬に死なれました。
Does this sound like 'the friend i had was killed by a dog that he once owned?'
I'm guessing it means a dog he had died, but could someone help me to understand it better? Cuz usually the ni in passive sentences is kind of translated to 'by' usually.
Here's a forum where people talked about the same grammatical pattern (includes the exact dog sentence example)
http://thejapanesepage.com/forum/viewto … amp;t=8362
edit: I found it by searching for the sentence in google, which surprisingly helps a lot in situations such as these, just to let you know for future reference I have no idea where I'd be without search engines when I'm confused about a sentence
Last edited by Nuriko (2009 June 17, 9:51 pm)
Nuriko wrote:
cloudstrife543 wrote:
ある友達は飼っていた犬に死なれました。
Does this sound like 'the friend i had was killed by a dog that he once owned?'
I'm guessing it means a dog he had died, but could someone help me to understand it better? Cuz usually the ni in passive sentences is kind of translated to 'by' usually.Here's a forum where people talked about the same grammatical pattern (includes the exact dog sentence example)
http://thejapanesepage.com/forum/viewto … amp;t=8362
edit: I found it by searching for the sentence in google, which surprisingly helps a lot in situations such as these, just to let you know for future reference
There was a debate on that forum about how "natural" the sentence was, so I asked someone here and they said that it was a natural passive sentence, although typically 死なれた is reserved for family members-- people, though if the pet was well loved and/or the death was unexpected, the sentiment was perfectly natural.
cloudstrife543 wrote:
ある友達は飼っていた犬に死なれました。
I'm guessing it means a dog he had died, but could someone help me to understand it better? Cuz usually the ni in passive sentences is kind of translated to 'by' usually.
It's like "my dog died ON ME" instead of "my dog died". You loved them so much and it hurts that they are dead. That's why it's passive. "They" are inflicting their death on you.
Hope I'm making some sense 
magamo wrote:
Aijin wrote:
...other than those four words I can't think of any other words that use the character...
...贅肉. Nothing personal.
Hey, I don't visit beaches often, so I have an excuse for forgetting that one 
