I know that Japanese offers a plethora of ways to link one sentence to another, including when the sentence is a negative. On top of the frequently taught methods ないで and なくて, ther …

what does the character mo "mean"? My son has a little pebble etched with that character and wants to know THANKS!

Hello OnJ! Working on another grammar point for next week... I understand what ならない means, but the か in ためか is throwing me off. Is it making a question of "ため=for the purpose of"? …

I’ve been tossing around the idea of inviting native Japanese speakers to ask their English questions on this site. I’ll list some pros and cons of doing this, but I’m really inte …

what is the japanese symbol for for the names Hannah, Brianna, Jonathan, Lily? these are my kids names and i want a differant way to spell the and show them there name can be writt …

this is getting tough. i am having a hard time learning. i need to have this down by september when i start the Japanese class.

In my studies of Japanese, one of the least taught things outside of slang and different subgroups are the principles of Japanese society that regulate each and every one of their …

Hi everyone, let's say I'm trying to read a japanese book, I come across a kanji or kanji compound I can't read. I would like to be able to find out a) the word in japanese. b) the …

I just encountered おる　today while reading an Ameblo blog post. Here is an excerpt from the post that used the word in question: こちらはかなり楽しくやっております According to Goo辞書 it uses the …

What is the meaning of the 'suffix' ishta and when is it used?

To establish a baseline for what I'm lookin' for, this is what I know so far about the rules for compounds: There are 2 basic types (訓読み+訓読み&音読み+音読み) and 2 advanced types (重箱読 …

How do I tell me son to apologize in Japanese? For instance instead of just saying, "Dame" for "No", how do I say "That's too loud" or "That isn't good" or "Apologize please".

Hi guys, it's exam time again! (yayyyyy). What's the difference between these two when using them as a "Clause 1 に対する／対して Clause 2" stucture? The definitions I got off Jisho are as …

Another grammatical use question, this time involving むしろ, and its many grammatical forms. In the text we were given to study this, we were given the following meanings and example …

Alright, so the basics of it are を is proceeded by transitive verb and が intransitive, and that in casual usage either one can be dropped. But what about when が is replaced by の, …