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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (December 22, 2024)

  • December 22, 2024

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4 comments

  1. > サラリーマンの生活の下らない、希望のなさ、その日暮しの味気なさについて流行歌まであるのだが、若いサラリーマンたちが、自分たちの生活の無意味さを自嘲的に喋るところだけに、自分のインテリゲンツィアである微かな誇りをもっていることが、私には本当に口惜しい気がする。

    I am not sure about のs in サラリーマンの生活の下らない. Is the second の functioning like が? Which noun 生活の下らない modifies?

  2. What does “であろうが” means on this sentence?

    なお…承知しているであろうが敵前逃亡は死罪に値する

  3. From A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
    「父が嫌いなのはテレビだ」

    Why use なのは after an い-adjective? Shouldn’t it just be のは?

  4. Occasionally I see verbs ending in ～ておくれ. For example (from Dragon Quest 1):

    ちょっと聞いておくれよ。

    From context, it seems to be a more polite version of ～てくれ。Is that correct?

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