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Thanks again Joel!
Quick question about questions: how do I inquire “should”?
“Where should I go?” “What should I buy?”, “Should I go to Canada?” etc. And on the flipside, the answers: “Yes/no, you should _____” and you get the gist.
Thank you both!
Can someone give me a rundown of how to say “I was the only _____/not the only ________”
For example, ‘I wasn’t only person sleeping’, or ‘Bob was the only one there’Much appreciated!
November 12, 2013 at 8:43 pm in reply to: The "I found some Japanese I don't understand" thread. #42339Thank you Joel, yet again you have a quick answer. Keep on keeping on!
November 9, 2013 at 8:54 pm in reply to: The "I found some Japanese I don't understand" thread. #42306Thanks in advance, by the way. Would be immensely helpful. ^^
November 9, 2013 at 8:51 pm in reply to: The "I found some Japanese I don't understand" thread. #42305その人だけが好きだったんだ。
Which piece of grammar does the んだ come from?
Thanks man! I guess I’ll just have to plow through some old Kanji.
Ahhh, yes, it all comes back now. Thanks Joel!
So something like 食べてくれてありがとうございます? Why does くれる use て form?
I’m not exactly sure – even a url to a list or something would help, maybe introductions, general commonplace phrases, stuff like that. I can’t really find anything of the sort on tofugu or textfugu.
http://www.linguanaut.com/english_japanese.htm
Something like this I suppose!
Thanks to you both yet again. ^^
I have another question: In a sentence like this 「新しい机を作るつもりですが明日ハワイに行きます。」, in the audio Koichi gives, the す in です seem much more pronounced, like more of an う sound than it’s usual ‘dess’. It’s the same for all of these が examples, does this kind of sentence alter the pronunciation for some reason?
It’s on this page:
http://www.textfugu.com/season-7/but/4-5/#topOh, okay, that does make sense, seeing as this was an example for using が to mean “but”.
The は particle can always be contrastive in meaning, then? That’s a little off putting. I’ll be sure to keep the subtle subtext in mind. Thank you very much!
Kanji does a good job at separating words out and letting you know which bits are vocab and which bits are grammar. Once you get some practice under your belt you’ll know fairly automatically!
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