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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (October 10, 2025)

  • October 10, 2025

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  2. >そして多分、私が迎える命日までもう何日もないだろう。私に何ができる？何が足掻ける？羽入が**諦めるように**やはり今回も駄目なのか?

    context: The speaker has relived the days before their untimely death 100s of times and can’t escape the loop.

    I’m not sure how to read that final sentence. I’m used to ように operating on a verb or adjective somehow. If it were:

    * 諦めるように見える
    * 諦めるようにため息をついた

    Or something like that with a verb I could understand, but 諦めるように[…]駄目なの is not understandable to me. How does this work gramatically?

  3. got a question about this genshin sentence

    A:つまり「識者の証」…その宝はここに隠されてるってことか？

    B:そうでしょう。ただ… 

    A:だったら、解体してお宝をいただくのはどうだ。しょせんただの**鉄くず**だ…そしたら君たちだって、ままごとに付き合わずに済む。 

    1. Not sure if im understanding ままごとに付き合う in last sentence. First time seeing ままごと. I understand that part like: If we do that even you won’t need to to go along with（付き合う?）playing house・pretend ?（ままごと?）

  4. This may be more of a subjective question, however, I tried googling and it seems to not understand my question so I’m asking here.

    Is ‘alternative spelling’ for Japanese considered ideal? E.g. 一人ぼっち v.s. 独りぼっち and 体 v.s. 身体. I recently had a small conversation with a Japanese person on a yt thread in Japanese, and when I spelled 人たち as 人達, they replied back saying that’s very unnatural. This got me wondering if other alternative spellings are also considered unnatural like the examples I listed above.

  5. Is there a way to import my 2.3k deck progress into the Kaishi deck?

    I’ve been using the 2.3k deck for a while before I discovered the Kaishi deck, the latter which I prefer with how the sentences are more comprehensible for someone still learning sentence structure.

  6. Where’s the line between something being フワフワ and モフモフ?

    I kind of understand them to be the same thing to a degree, but I feel like they aren’t quite the same.

    Based entirely on feel: モフモフ is something soft, but more dense, and フワフワ is more airy.

  7. この鍋は、いため物に、揚げ物に（）何にでも使えて便利です。

    A)は B)と C)や D)か

    Is it supposed to be interpreted as >!この鍋は、「いため物に、揚げ物に」と、何にでも使えて便利です。!< ? Not sure about this usage of the particle

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