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“_______ためか______ならない” What is ためか?

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"? …
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Is there a significant difference between いる and おる?

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 …
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Difference Between 〜に対して and 〜に対する

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 …
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Functions of むしろ- Indicating Alternatives

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 …
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The different way to mark a verb

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, …
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How do I use 対(たい)?

Can someone give me an explanation and/or example sentences for using the word 対?
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あまりない? Just a bit confused.

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 …
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〜のではないか- And all those other fancy sentence endings

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 …
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The different ways to use 'ii"

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 …
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“You let me do it and I am gratful” - そうさせていただきます

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 …
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Can someone explain the nuance of 〜に通して?

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! …
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には particle confuses me

「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.
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Is 全然大丈夫 grammatically correct???

Is 全然大丈夫 grammatically correct??? can you say 全然 with non negative words???
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What does もって mean?

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 …
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How to say “would have been” in Japanese…

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 …

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