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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (December 22, 2025)

  • December 22, 2025

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  1. When it comes to this sentence (from Bunpo), why is it like this:

    ミンさんはユンさんとアイスランドに行きます。

    Min will go to Iceland with Yun.

    In other words – why is Min first and then followed by the は particle? Shouldn’t it be Min と ユンさん go to? (It’s confusing to see Min then the は particle and Yun と and Iceland together.)

    Edit: I mistranslated the name, now it’s Yun. Also, I forgot と can also be “with” someone.

  2. ＞A：「エラい人が決めた話では【魔女】はこの国にとって、災厄をもたらす悪らしいんです」
    > A：「わが国の法に基づいた全国検査によって、皆さんはその因子が大きく検出された存在」
    > B：「間違いです。私は悪ではない」
    > A：「はぁ～、あの、頼みます。**悪者を受け入れてください**。みんな（note: implied この牢獄に）平和に楽しくがいいので…」

    context: Salem witch trials inspired setting. Character A is overseeing a bunch of people who have been imprisoned on suspicion of being witches. The twist is that the suspects themselves seem to be unaware that they have the “因子” that causes them to be witches.

    confusing sentence: **悪者を受け入れてください.** From context I basically understand that he’s saying “please accept (that you are) a villian, but I don’t understand how the “(that you are)” part is implicit. Why is it not something like 悪者だと受け入れてください、悪者だということ etc etc etc.

    Is it spoken shorthand that you can just directly use 悪者 as a direct object, or something about the verb 受け入れる that makes this gramatically make sense?

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