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I’ve learned that polite negative questions can be used as invitations – such as 食べませんか？ Quick question though – do people also do this with casual speech, such as something like 食べない？
In the second sentence, is it correct that the winning bidder is not named? The winning bidder pays 1/3 of the price of the daimyo’s tribute rice that is sent to the warehouse and is issued a 手形.
「米市」と聞いて、米俵を取引する市場を連想された読者もいるかもしれないが、ここではすでに手形で売買がなされている。**大名が国元から廻送した年貢米を蔵屋敷から落札し、その代銀（＝代金）の三分の一を支払うと手形が発行される。**これに残りの金額（残代銀）を添えて蔵屋敷に提出すれば、米と引き替えることができたわけだが、落札者はこの手形を第三者に転売していた。右には掲示しなかったが、同じ町触に「一枚の手形、一日の内に十人の手に渡り」との文言もあり、取引が活発になされた様子をうかがわせる。
Potentially dumb question:
Is there a way in Japanese to say “I don’t want to be ____”? Like, “I don’t want to be rude/too early/etc”? I’ve not come across a たくない conjugation of です and I’m not sure if this is because I simply haven’t learned it yet (or the closest approximation) or because it doesn’t exist.
What does “4枚切り1枚” mean in this article? I don’t know which sense of “切り” they’re using and why there are two numbers with counter words.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/ne2025041811225/ne2025041811225.html