助詞「か」. Used with phrases to indicate questions, or with nouns to indicate a list of alternatives.
Questions tagged [particle-か]
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In informal speech is か used or omitted?
I've heard different things - on the one hand saying things like 高いか, きれいか, or 飲むか is too aggressive, but in my grammar book it says that か is used with informal forms. Furthermore I'm told that instead of using か with informal forms, one should…
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What is the meaning of か in といったところか
I have two examples:
噂に違{たが}わぬと言ったところか. -- Then, he really lives up to the rumor!
この建物の建設にかかる費用はおおよそ100億円といったところか -- That would mean that we need 10 million to build this building!
I would bet that か here is used in the following sense…
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What is the function of か between these two verbs?
文章を読んで、何について書いているか考えてください. I think it means, read the sentence(s), and think about something to write. I don't understand why か is between 書いている instead of て-form.
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The use of か [ka]
So I've been wondering around, thinking about if it would be wrong to use the character か after the shortened phrase 元気。That is 元気 as in [ お元気ですか？]. Would it still mean the same if you did it like this [元気か] or would that be grammatically…
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Usage of か I keep encountering
Maybe I'm an idiot, but no matter how much I Google I can't seem to grasp the concept of か being used mid-sentence. I've already run into it a number of times. Like here:
アメリカやヨーロッパなど６つの国は、イランが核兵器をつくろうとしているのではないかと考えて、経済制裁を続けていました。
I believe this…
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Meaning of か when not 'or' statement or question
I was reading NHK and came across this headline
母親監禁し暴行か 同居家族4人が逮捕 草むらに6歳男児の遺体も
After putting it into Deepl it came out as
Mother held captive and assaulted, 4 family members living together arrested, body of 6 year old boy in the grass.
As far…
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What does か mean here?
二度と来るかこんな病院!!
The character is an old man who is angry. He's not going to go in that hospital once again. Why doesn't he say 来ない?
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Is か modifying all three clauses in this sentences?
The following is an excerpt from NHK Easy news article: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10012922471000/k10012922471000.html
フランスでは、このウイルスがうつる力の強さや、病気が重くなる可能性、どのくらいウイルスが広がっているかを調べています。
I just wanted to know if this か applies to the nested clauses…
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Usage of か before を
During my immersion I bumped into this sentence その動作・作用が、どんな場所・場面において行われるかを表わす。
In 場面において行われるかを表わす。what is the role of か specifically?
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using か with a verb
When attaching か to a verb, for example: 食べるか, it can mean "as if it can be eaten". Or 知るか to mean "as if I know". From what I know about か, it really only a question mark, so how does it get translated to "as if"? Also, if I use か in this manner,…
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Understanding the use of か
僕は山崎先生が昨日何を言ったか忘れてしまった
I don't understand what is that か doing in this sentence I mean, It should be an を but there's already one but anyways I don't think this is related to the problem
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Does 耶 still hold any value in Japanese?
While I was flipping through a kanji dictionary (2013's Kodansha KLD), I came across 耶{や} , which in the book, said it was the interrogative particle か. However, after a bit more research, it doesn't seem to yield anything outside of Chinese; is it…
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