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Learn Japanese AnimeManga About anime fang flower on head Money gesture wwww maji manji ssu nan'nakya niko gikun kono ore-sama ...loading... A blog about the language spoken in anime. Share on Twitter Readership Survey Hello. Could you answer this survey for a moment? Thanks. Tuesday, August 29, 2023 konna koto mo arou ka to こんなこともあろうかと Word Meaning In Japanese, konna koto mo arou ka to こんな事もあろうかと, meaning "[I] thought something like this might happen, [so I prepared this in advance]," is a phrase commonly as a gag in comedy manga and anime , by a character who is just too well prepared, specially for a situation nobody would have expected to happen. Manga: Ya Boy Kongming!, Paripi Koumei パリピ孔明 Manga: SPY×FAMILY Grammar Examples Read more » 1 comment 2023-08-29T16:58:00-07:00 2023-08-29T23:58:06Z Monday, July 31, 2023 い Particle In Japanese, sometimes a phrase ends with dai だい or kai かい that would normally end with the da だ copula or the ka か question marker. This extra i い is a sentence-ending particle and is generally used to make a sentence more soft and amicable. nanda i なんだ い What is it? sou ka i そうか い Is that so? iku zo i 行くぞ い Let's go! akireta wa i 呆れたわ い [I give up] (on y'all, on this situation, etc.). The sentences above mean the same thing as themselves without the particle: nanda , sou ka , iku zo , akireta wa . Source: Various. Usage Amicable Questions Instead of yo よ By Elderly Characters Cutesy zoi ぞい Romaji Copula References Read more » 1 comment 2023-07-31T16:08:00-07:00 2023-07-31T23:45:20Z Friday, June 30, 2023 iyashikei 癒し系 In manga and anime , iyashikei 癒し系 , meaning in Japanese "healing-type," refers to a genre and type of character (or even person) that "heals" you, in the sense of makes you feel at ease, relaxed, calm. Meaning in Japanese Character Type Genre References Read more » No comments 2023-06-30T19:50:00-07:00 2023-07-01T04:59:22Z Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Counters WIP In Japanese, a " counter ," or josuushi 助数詞, is a word that comes after a number to say what sort of thing is being counted, e.g. "3 slices ," mi- kire ３ 切れ . More technically, it's a morpheme suffixed to a quantifier, which includes non-numbers like zen~ 全～, "all," and nan~ 何～ , "how many." keeki wo mi- kire tabeta ケーキを３ 切れ 食べた [I] ate three slices of cake. banana wo san- bon tabe te-iru バナナを３ 本 食べている [I] have eaten three bananas. nan- nichi ga kakaru? 何 日 がかかる How many days will [it] take? suu- byou de owatta 数 秒 で終わった [It] ended in a few seconds . {suu- kiro mo aru } ton'neru 数 キロ もあるトンネル A tunnel [with] {many kilometers [of length]}. Grammar Basic Usage Sentence-Final Counter ~te-iru Form Changes in Pronunciation Static Pronunciation Counters vs. English Nouns Homography Polysemy Same Thing, Different Counter Counting People Same Thing, Different Perspective What Comes Before the Counter Pronunciation of the Number "The Number Of" References Read more » No comments 2023-05-31T18:05:00-07:00 2023-07-06T19:26:40Z Saturday, April 29, 2023 Introduction to Japanese Grammar So you know nothing about Japanese and you want to know what a sentence in Japanese says. Well, this article is for you. For starters, the basic structure of a simple, typical Japanese sentence looks like this: {{ Adverb } + adjective / verb } + noun + particle × N times + adjective/verb + N particles. For example: {{sugoku (adv.) } sugoi (adj.) } hito (n.) wa (p.) sugoi (adj.) na (p.) すごくすごい人はすごいな People (n.) [that] {are {incredibly (adv.) } incredible (adj.) } are incredible (adj.) . (literally.) An {{incredibly} incredible} person is incredible. yo (n.) no (p.) naka (n.) niwa (p.) {ii (adj.) } hito (n.) mo (p.) {warui (adj.) } hito (n.) mo (p.) iru (v.) yo ne (p.) 世の中にはいい人も悪い人もいるよね In the world (n.) , there are (v.) {good (adj.) } people (n.) and {bad (adj.) } people (n.) , too, aren't there? jibun (n.) wo (p.) shinjiru (v.) na (.p) , ore (n.) wo (p.) shinjiro (v.) ! {omae (n.) wo (p.) shinjiru (v.) } ore (n.) wo (p.) shinjiro (v.) !! 自分を信じるな、俺を信じろ！ おまえを信じる、俺を信じろ！！ Don't believe (v.) in yourself (n.) , believe (v.) in me (n.) ! Believe (v.) in the me (n.) [that] {believes (v.) in you (n.) }!! shinjiraremasen (v.) 信じられません [I] can't believe (v.) [it]. As you can see above, you often have a "n. p. n. p." noun-particle pattern, and v.'s tend to come after p.'s. Some sentences have different structures, and we still don't know what adverbs, adjectives, verbs, nouns, and particles look like exactly. In this article we'll see all of this and some more, so you'll have a starting point even if you know nothing about Japanese. Then, once you figured out the structure of the sentence, all that's left is to look up the words of the sentence in a dictionary (e.g. jisho.org ), and with luck you'll understand what it means. Note: this article is only about grammar. It's recommended you familiarize yourself with the Japanese "alphabets" before continuing. Translating Inexplicitness Postpositions Sentence Structure Overview Conjunctions Sentence-Ending Particles Predicates Double Subject Sentences Inflections Auxiliaries and Compounds Ergativity Change of Transitivity Passive Voice Attributive Clauses Adverbs Tensed Predicates Subordinate Tense Parallel Predicates Respectful Predicates Interjections Yes and No Idiomatic Expressions Read more » No comments 2023-04-29T09:12:00-07:00 2023-04-29T18:17:21Z Friday, March 31, 2023 Can You Learn ? WIP One question many weebs ask themselves is: can you learn Japanese with anime ? Or: can you learn Japanese with manga ? Or with light novels , visual novels, Japanese games, Japanese songs, Japanese dramas, etc.? The answer is... yes, you can! Except you still have to study. If you work real hard and spend all your time reading raw manga in Japanese, you'll get really good at Japanese... found in raw manga , which is maybe all you wanted anyway. In this article, I'll explain how it works, and provide some guidance to learn Japanese by consuming media. 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Syntactically, this is (likely) the ka か particle turned into a no の adjective qualifying you 様 followed by the ni に adverbial copula . Other conjugations include: ka no you na かのよう な , ka no you da かのよう だ , and ka no you desu かのよう です . tenshi da 天使だ [It] is an angel. tenshi ka no you da 天使 かのよう だ [It] is as if [they] were an angel. {tenshi ka no you na} kao 天使 かのよう な顔 [They have] a face [that] {is as if [they] were an angel}. They have a face that makes you think they're an angel. They have a face like that of an angel. {tenshi ka no you ni} sora wo tobu 天使 かのよう に空を飛ぶ To fly { as if one were an angel}. Grammar At Sentence End Examples Read more » No comments 2023-02-10T13:36:00-08:00 2023-02-10T21:38:36Z Tuesday, January 31, 2023 you ni suru ようにする - Meaning in Japanese What does ~ you ni suru ～ ようにする...