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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (March 30, 2025)

  • March 30, 2025

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5 comments

  1. a sentence i came across while studying 時 in a resource book says the following sentence translates to “I (will) wash my hands (right) before I eat my meal.” 私はご飯を食べる時手を洗う。I’ve always thought that this sentence in Japanese doesn’t provide enough information as to when exactly the person washes his/her hands, just generally around the time of eating.

    例文は A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar pg493に

  3. What difficulty is 四月は君の噓 both anime/manga? Since it’s almost April, I am planning to do my yearly re-watch and since I’ve only started my JP journey a month a go, I was wondering if I would be able to sentence-mine and rewatch it at the same time at my current ability.

  4. Is ～ていい *actually* a ‘shortened informal’ version of ～てもいい? That obviously feels natural to believe at first, but there are things like ～と見てよい in formal writing, and the fact 「どうしていいか」 doesn’t mean the same thing as 「どうしてもいいか」

    If anything, I feel the も makes it more *polite*, on the ‘more polite but not more formal’ axis, due to making it more indirect

  5. Does anyone know of someone that was caught or affected by the answer leak?

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