05/16/19
Particle に to enumerate things?
I encountered several sentences where に was used—from my deduction of the context—to enumerate things. For example a character about to go somewhere, checks his bag if he has everything he needs :...
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04/14/19
Trouble understanding this apology: 我々が...謝罪?
An English website wrote an apology in Japanese after it took down an image of cracked hinomaru (日の丸) — the hinomaru linked to a donation page for the disasters following the March 11...
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How to say regrets [I should not have X]?
How in the world does this:
> 晩ご飯を食べるんじゃなかった。
translate as "I should not have eaten breakfast"?
This roughly translates as "It was not that I eat breakfast."
03/19/19
Usage of ~じゃん (~じゃない)?
I'd like to know if I can put ~じゃん at the end of every adjective, if there are any exceptions to that usage, and if it's different from ~じゃない.
**Adj (na) + じゃん**
> 便利じゃん
> 便利だったじゃん
>...
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03/19/19
Proper form of なさる - なさります or なさいます?
In Genki II (second ed.), page 168 we are given polite forms of some verbs, among them する with なさる. They have also written that some of them have irregular conjugations in long forms, among them...
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03/18/19
Contrasting っぽい、らしい、みたい?
For example, the following 3:
女っぽい (おんなっぽい)
女らしい (おんならしい)
女みたい (おんなみたい)
In what situations would you use っぽい over らしい? Does っぽい have negative connotations? Are 女らしい and 女みたい interchangeable as...
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usage of「ご迷惑をおかけ・・・」variants for a business apology?
I have to apologize for a procedural error at work, and am unsure about selecting the right form of apology from the variants of...
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Writing 2 equations from the information given..
A 500g slab of cheese is completely eaten by two mice.
If Minnie had eaten twice as much as she did, and Mickey had eaten half as much as he did, there would have been 100g left.
If Minnie = x...
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04/03/18
Three teachers donated $1500. Mrs smith donated 2x as much as mrs Jones. Mrs Berg donated 72 more dollars than mrs smith ho much did each teacher raise
Three teachers donated $1500. Mrs smith donated 2x as much as mrs Jones. Mrs Berg donated 72 more dollars than mrs smith how much did each teacher raise
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