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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (September 19, 2025)

  • September 19, 2025

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  2. I’d like some clarification on ように・な, I feel like I understand but at the same time I don’t. I tried making my own sentence “Well known foods like sushi, are popular in Japan” and I came up with よく知られる食べ物のような寿司は日本で人気です。But AI grammar checker told me it was redundant because sushi is already a well known food, I thought I was providing some sort of example for well known foods in my sentence.

    My textbook says よう is used in 1 of 3 ways. 1. A resembles B, 2. A is as B shows, explains, or says 3. A is done in a way thats explained, shown, or said by B. I feel like I can start to understand why my sentence is redundant and unnatural, because I am sort of saying well known foods, resembling or as shown/explained Sushi (which is already a well known food, so it doesn’t do much to help explain well known foods within Japan?) but I am still very confused about how its used and why I feel so inclined to use it comparatively or exemplary similarly to how “like” is used in English.

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