Questions tagged [homonyms]

Perhaps one of the more interesting/infuriating things i've found is how どうこう is seemingly always written without kanji... the obvious ones with する default to 同行 I assume だからと言って今すぐどうこうするって話でもないけど。-just cuz i said that doesn't mean i saying i want…

This question is to confirm that the two verbs (to buy and to have) are homophones. わたしはねこをかっています。 Could the above sentence be translated to "I have a cat" as well as "I am buying a cat"? Are there other ways to phrase the above sentence that are…

On Denshi Jisho looking up "おとこのこ"　brings up two results: 男の子 and 男のコ Edit: (child not boy) I read the first one literally as "Male [possesive] child" or "Male's child" (or maybe の here is not a particle, just part of the word). The second one is…