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 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 …

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, …

Can someone give me an explanation and/or example sentences for using the word 対？

Hello again everyone...really, as much as I come here I should just go and make an account haha. So I recently came across these sentences in a message from my Japanese friend: 本 …

I've been curious about how many examples of complex sentence endings people can come up with that aren't usually searchable in a dictionary. (And if they can give definitions on t …

I was doing a bit of home study when I found a few things on 'Ii' and a lot of different ways to use it, like with different conditional forms, after a verb stem, and so many other …

In my Business Japanese class I was told that そうさせていただきます means something like "you will let me do it, and I am grateful". Additionally I was told that it can be used to confirm th …

I have an exam tomorrow, and the teacher tried to explain the function of the grammar point に通して by using a paper towel roll and placing an electrical chord through it....よく分からない！ …

「彼のしつこさには閉口する」 「庭のぶよには閉口する」 Is there a special reason why　 には　is used in these sentences instead of 　は？ Thanks for your time, the には　particle has always confused me a little.

Is 全然大丈夫 grammatically correct??? can you say 全然 with non negative words???

I looked it up in various dictionaries and it said 'with, by, by means of, because, in view of' which is a bit vague. Could you please give me some examples of it being used in a s …

I am writing to a friend. I was talking about how I wanted to find a hairstylist when I was in Japan, but couldn't, and now I found out about him which is too bad because now I'm i …