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1. 待つ in て-form is 待って. It is a godan verb (U-verb) so it should end with って. What I see online confirms this.

   Genki states that for past tense short form, verbs replace the te-form endings て and で with た and だ.

   So my question is why is 待つ in negative form 待たない?

   Are the exceptions to the past tense short form rule or am I missing something?

2. I`ve recently started sentence mining after picking up a little over 1000 vocab words, and have made a mining deck on anki which I`ve combined with my vocab deck into one big deck.

   My question is should I suspend new words form the vocab deck and learn exclusively from the mining one? I’m afraid I might mine words that are already on the vocab deck and make duplicate cards, therefore bloating my deck and reviews.

   (My vocab deck is the core 2k/6k btw)

3. So I know about the whispered う sound but up until this point the い sound made at the end of し has always been very clear to me. However, I recently encountered the word いしころ on wani kani and the speech sample is pretty strange. Sounds like い sound at the end of し is omitted. As in stead of “ishikoro” it sounds like “ishkoro”. Just wondering if this something I should pay attention moving forwards and if it’s common in other words, or if it’s just a accent maybe?

4. In conversational Japanese, can the ~ばいい be shortened to just ~ば?

   For example: …誰に渡せばいい → …誰に渡せば

5. At what point should I start sentence mining? After reaching n5 or before that?

6. [At the end of this] (https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0978cy/498/) (mildly NSFW, kinda weird シスコン stuff), 姉に預かった同人誌をもう一度読み返そう。 = 姉から預かった同人誌をもう一度読み返そう。, right?

7. Question about the usage of 結 in these song lyrics:

   風とともに描く未来結

   I can’t find any information on the use of 結 as a suffix. It sounds sort of like it’s pronounced ゆ in the song, though I can’t be sure. What does it mean exactly?

8. I’m thinking about a really old conversation so maybe I have the details wrong but, is it true that Japanese is very much against using the passive voice in a neutral / objective way when the causer of the action is inanimate? In English we could have a headline like ‘National park saved from tsunami by tetrapod barriers’ (idk probably not the best example but you get it), and while some may quibble that it’s bad writing I don’t think any would say it’s grammatically incorrect or that the tetrapod barriers are necessarily being anthropomorphized.

   I remember someone saying that によって for the actions of inanimate things in the passive voice is mostly just an English translation convention and not really used in natural Japanese and I think about that sometimes.

   I bring this up now because lately I’ve been thinking about the 受け身-like use of に with もらう which *does* seem to require anthropomorphism as far as I can tell, and I’m wondering if there’s a broader connection or if my brain is just straight fried and I’m grasping at straws haha.

9. need help with this sentence (left bubble). Based on the context, I translated that this guy’s talking about a girl skipping school. But when I searched the phrase “サボっ”, google and some source showed me that the correct phrase for “skipping school” was サボる or サボった. What is the correct meaning of サボっ? Can somebody help me. Thankyou in advance

   https://preview.redd.it/k9gjgtcnxnje1.jpeg?width=241&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=446ce57219e0dfa2114dffe2e96a367012ba1ace

10. I started learning japanese recently. What is the easy way to practice sentence formations? Need more examples and exercises. Current state of my learning – N5 – Lesson 8 grammar. Guide me on how can practice and learn more and more