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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (November 08, 2025)

  • November 8, 2025

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  1. 僕が推測するに、開けるには動力源が必要みたい

    I get what the sentence is trying to convey, but i dont think ive seen 辞書形＋に before. What is it actually doing and can you use it with other verbs in this way?

  2. What’s the difference in usage between おおきい and おっきい? I’m starting japanese and i’ve stumbled across a japanese post on twitter where people used おっきい instead of 大きい. They were talking about a belly. Is there any reason why that was used rather than おおきい?

  3. What’s the proper way to conjugate that it seems that someone doesn’t want to do something? Is it したくながっているorしたがりません。がる combines with the verb たい form but can it be the negative form? And should I still keep the ている as I would for they want to do something? I spoke both of them to google translate and they bothe translated right? Thanks for any help

  5. 悪い is nakadaka, but when negated 悪くない becomes essentially atamadaka. Why is this?

  6. Im currently doing RRTK 450(or rtk 450) deck in [anki.Im](http://anki.Im) also doing tim kae grammar and kana grinding sideby side too.After finishing rtk450 deck can I move to kaishi 1.5k deck?Am i doing anything wrong?suggest tips too. Thank you for reading!

  8. I’ve been doing Wanikani for a while. What would you add next to my Japanese learning regime?

  9. Faced a bit of a problem while learning vocabulary. It seems I can understand the words just fine, while studying them in Anki, but when I meet them in the wild(the words i am supposed to know) my brain just doesn’t want to recognize them. To be more precise, my brain knows that these words are familiar but the definition and especially the reading escapes me. And i am not talking about the words which i learned a week ago or smth. These are the words that have been constantly in my studies throughout 6 months. What should i do to handle this? I guess i should just study more and read more

  11. Hi everyone, I’ve been studying Japanese for a while and I’ve finished Genki 1 and I’m almost done with Genki 2. I’ve complete Kaishi 1.5k in May. I’m struggling to start making new cards and start immersing as I don’t know which words are actually worth mining at my level and which are not. Moreover, I am unsure of how to mine grammar sentences or how to approach grammar after the Genki textbooks. Can anyone please help?

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