御飯を柔らかめに炊いた why is 柔らかめに　used here instead of　柔らかく　or 　柔らかに　？ Thanks for your time

This is a sentence from smart.fm 「彼は目的のためには手段を選ばなかったわね」 They have translated it as: "He used every trick in the book to achieve his aims." I think it's a fair translation, but I …

Hello, just wondering when you use each of them? I assume なん is a noun modifier, but なに is a noun on its own? Is that right?

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"? …

The sentence is: 眩しいばかりに美しい女 The meaning is easy enough to understand, but I'm not clear on how the ばかり can be used in other contexts. Does ばかり here mean "as if" -- i.e., "so bea …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 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！ …

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 …

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 …

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

To say that you understand something, is it always the case that you say 分かりました？ Are there certain situations where you should instead say 分かります or 分かっています? For example, if someon …