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What's the difference between がんばれ and 頑張って 【がんばって】?
This one stumped my Japanese friend that I was having dinner with earlier tonight. We were talking about the fact that tomorrow is Monday and I had a tough work week ahead. She said ガンバレ, I paused, and asked what was the difference between that and…
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correctness of い adjective + です
Generally, in all Japanese language classes, the rule you're taught is that です does not follow い adjectives. Instead, い adjectives can act like stative verbs, and as such terminate a sentence by themselves. However, I have heard this usage…
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How do ことになる and ようになる differ? (When ことになる cannot = "It has been decided that")
I understand that ことになる has the meaning "It has been decided that" and can be used to point to a ritual or habit of a society like taking off your shoes.
However, I don't get what it means when it is like this:
あすで１週間雨が降りつづくことになる。
How is that…
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What is ~げに suffix actually?
Today, while looking up random words in WWWJDIC, I stumbled upon an example sentence for the word いとしい as below:
少女は人形をいとしげに抱き締めた。 The girl squeezed her doll affectionately.
The sentence uses ~げに adjective suffix that I have never seen before.…
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How impolite is it to call a waitress お姉{ねえ}さん?
Were I in a situation where I want to get the attention of a waitress in a noisy restaurant, I kind of feel like calling-out: "お姉{ねえ}さん、すみませんが、ビールもう一本お願いできますか？". I think that I've seen this done in a movie, as well as seen native speakers do this…
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Meaning of 情弱乙 ?
I see 情弱乙 being used (as an interjection?) on many websites, but I can't find it in any dictionary, even online dictionaries. I guess the pronunciation is じょうじゃくおつ. What does it mean?
Examples:
情弱乙！
ガラケーｗｗｗ情弱乙ｗｗｗ
情弱乙と呼ばれないために
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Difference between 見る and 観る?
Lately I've seen in some dialog games with this difference. They use 観る rather than 見る, e.g.:
・あなたテレビ観るかな。
・あんまり観ない方なんだ。
So I'm thinking I can use 見る to make the same dialog. However there must be a reason why they use one instead of the other.…
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How do you ask for "the bill" at a restaurant?
This is probably a bit of a silly question, but what do you say in Japanese when you're asking for the bill in a restaurant? Or is it unusual to say anything at all?
When I was in Japan I could never really catch any particular phrases and when I…
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Difference between 書かないようになった and 書かなくなった?
Example sentences:
ぜんぜん長い手紙を書かないようになった。
ぜんぜん長い手紙を書かなくなった。
My Translation: I never write long letters anymore.
I believe they both mean the same thing but there's obviously some difference I don't know about.
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後で vs. 前に. Why not the same particle?
Why don't 後で and 前に both use the same particle? (I suppose I would think に would be more appropriate.) They both seem to be the same kind of statement, just with different times (before/after), so I really can't think of any reason for the particle…
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What is the meaning and usage of ネタ?
For example in this phrase:
話すネタはもっていそう
I translate it into "he might have some stories", but I have the impression it has many other meanings.
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ち suffix I've never heard of before
Ok, so I've been reading よつばと recently, and I've been seeing a suffix coming up that I cannot seem to find a meaning for. It's not in any dictionary, and I'm not sure if it's a name suffix, or some obscure grammatical marker I've never heard before.…
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What is the difference between どのぐらい and どれぐらい?
I just heard a sentence this morning - "how much money do you have?"
お金、どれぐらい ある？
I have always been taught "how much" is どのぐらい so hearing どれぐらい has caught me off-guard.
As I recall we use この with an object, and これ when there is not…
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How to say: "I am returning your call"
Title says it all!
If somebody called and left a message, when calling them back, is there a set expression for that?
I generally just use "さっきにお電話頂いた...", but wondering if there is a more idiomatic way to say this.
(this happens a lot more in a…
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Are these phrases interchangeable? に関して, に対して, において, について, における
There's already a question that discusses にかんして vs について but I found more terms that are more or less the same to me. All phrases seem to be some kind of topic marker that can be roughly translated to "regarding" or oftentimes "in" but I couldn't…
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