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does 「おで」meaning "I" belong to any japanese dialect or is it an anime thing?

I watched an youtube interview where the youtuber asked around if people used words commonly found in anime in day to day life. One of the words was「おで」and one person said they used ironically as...

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Why is kanji 片 classified in the SKIP system as 4-4-4 and not 3-3-1?

The left-top part of 片 seems to me to look like a frame element. I've read the appendix in Halpern's NTC's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary explaining the detailed rules of the SKIP system,...

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From 学習漢字辞典, I can't grasp the meaning of this sentence

I am having fun studying through this beautiful dictionary (学習漢字辞典、第2版)aimed at elementary students, but I'm having some difficulty grasping the true meaning of the following...

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Ateji indication in kokugo headwords

I couldn't seem to find a helpful answer anywhere so I might as well ask here.In monolingual dictionaries, how is ateji indicated in the headwords? Is there a sort-of standard? E.g. in the sankoku...

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How can I fully understand the literal meaning of common phrases like 有り難う御座います?

How can I fully understand the literal meaning of common phrases like 有り難う御座います?Besides knowing the meaning of phrases like those in real life and just remembering them as a whole, I'm really...

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Lexicographic convention for indicating the pitch accent if the part of...

If a word's pitch accent contour ends in a high pitch, how do lexicographic resources usually indicate it if the word's part of speech doesn't allow for a contrast between word-final H(-H) (unaccented,...

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the meaning of "のこと" in this sentence

Ohayou, please i wanted to understand the exact meaning of this definition-like sentence:何か、機械とかに人間っぽいことをさせる、知能を持たせるみたいなまあ広い枠組みのことをAIと言ってAnd because I found it difficult to really grasp the "のこと" part....

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Determining Pitch of 何より from Accent Dictionaries

I'm trying to learn how to determine the pitch accent of words from monolingual accent dictionaries. In this case the word in question is 何より, which can have Atamadaka or Heiban pitch. According to my...

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Does とみに here mean intensely?

サトルは正義感がとみに強い男ではあるが、それをいいことに利用しようとすりよる輩も存在していた。The 広辞苑 dictionary lists とみに to have the meaning of しきりに :しきりに。「老眼が―進んだ」「国運―衰える」which on of its meanings is "intensely".so, does とみに here means intensely ?

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Why is the same English meaning of ため tied to different Japanese meanings in...

Jisho gives "consequence; result; effect" with an example sentenceそれは、おまえの声をよく聞くためだよ。(It is in order to hear your voice well.)Tangorin gives "consequence;  result;  effect" with an example...

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About ancient pronunciation on dictionaries

In large dictionaries like 広辞苑 or 大辞林, there are some entries tagged with "ancient pronunciations" which are almost identical to the modern ones but with a voiced consonant voiceless (or vice versa),...

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What does 加減 even mean?

At the moment, I am trying to translate かりゆし58's song "アンマー," which has a lot of expressions in it; I would not be surprised if I misinterpreted some of them. However, the focus for this question is on...

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Dictionary searching for kanji readings and words

everyone, thanks for having me!So, i’ve just started studying kanji and vocabulary and searching for words and readings on dictionaries (Japanese app).However some cross information between my study...

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Can なにか be used to mean "no"?

In a Japanese dictionary entry for the word なにか, I came across the following definition:今まで述べてきたことや相手の言葉などを否定して、それとは反対の趣旨を述べるときに用いる。いやいや。とんでもない。The example sentence is「―。この歌よみ侍らじとなむ思ひ侍るを」Some...

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How to differentiate different kanji separations in dictionary

I am using the Takoboto dictionary.Under the listing for 書店 (しょてん), there are two breakups of the pronunciation (one with the azure squiggly separator going first below the first kanji and then above...

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How to express that something "must be + adj" as in "we must be strong"?

I am not talking about consequences, such as in "I can't find my wallet, I must have lost it" in which case I think something like ~に違いない could be used. Rather, I would like to know how to express that...

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Attempting to Parse the NHK 2016 Pitch Entry on ちょっと

When looking up the definition of ちょっと in a bilingual dictionary, it is given the possible pitch accent patterns of (i) atamadaka, (ii) heiban, and (iii) odaka. So which accent to use, in which...

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Where is verb transitivity listed in japanese dictionaries? [closed]

This may be a generic question. I wanted to see if a verb had some transitive use and thought a japanese-japanese dictionary would be more detailed than jisho.org, but I can't seem to find any mention...

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で of the copula or で cause particle

Konnichiwa, I found this sentence in a computer science video:"分からないことだらけで、ググって解決してそしてコードを書いている"About the part is it the で of the copula "です" for simply connecting two sentences, or the "で" particle...

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広範 ambiguous meaning

During my dictionary search of the word "資本主義" I found this definition:商品経済の広範な発達を前提に,労働者を雇い入れた資本家による利潤の追求を原動力として動く経済体制。The thing is that I do understand the whole meaning, however I'm pretty stuck...

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