Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (February 20, 2023)

10 comments

1. Is it natural to chain “と” while listing multiple people?

   e.g.

   x さん と y さん と zさん

2. Hello, I have two questions.

   when pronouncing a double vowel sound should I be making 2 distinct vowel noises or one elongated vowel noise or is conditional?

   Say im writing kanji with 2 consecutive strokes. In the case that the second starts exactly where the first ends, should I be raising my writing tool? Or does it not matter?

3. Was wondering about this use of ～やがる. It’s hard to show this without context but, it’s from the Final Fantasy IV script I’ve been reading: http://ff4com.s4.xrea.com/ff4conve/conve013.html

   One of the characters says “待ちやがれ！！” and I thought やがる would turn it into “You have the nerve to wait” but IDK what the command form does to this, and in context it should be more like “Wait for me you scoundrel!” or something like that.

   So I wonder what’s up.

4. Is there a way to identify when a verb that ends in -iru or -eru is a godan verb instead of an ichidan verb? Or is it just memorization? Is there a rule I can follow or a list of common ones I just need to memorize?

5. Any natives want to languages exchange on Line?
   I do this with 2 others but they’re usually busy. They practice english and I speak as much japanese as I can.

   Only over text. I’m also a native Hebrew.

6. How do you say “I apologize in advance” with the sub context for whatever will happen next.

   Example,

   I apologize in advance if this experiment goes wrong.

   I apologize in advance if I push you too hard.

7. When talking about nominalization, and more specifically ～こと　And　～ということ, would I be correct to say that ～こと only nominalizes verbs, whereas ～ということ can nominalize entire phrases? Or am I misunderstanding it?

   **運動する**ことが好きだ。

   **この法律を知っている人が少ない**ということは、大きな問題だ

   Like in these sentences, am I correct to assume that the bolded text is what is being nominalized?

   Thank you! 😀

8. Could someone please explain what the below means? The context is:

   Person A makes several comments that point to an obvious solution but hasn’t stated the obvious conclusion yet. Person B responds with:

   あなた・・・わかってて言ってんじゃないでしょうね？

   In this sentence, is 言ってん perhaps short for 言っていない?

9. I’m watching japanese peppa pig, they are at the beach, and the mother says, “what a lot of stuff, I hope we don’t forget anything on the way home” then peppa pulls out the items from the bag, beach ball, parasol ect, but lists them with に , now I’m wondering why に and not と?

   My theory is this, に is used like a target, so peppa is targeting those items (for when they go home)

   is this a correct analysis? otherwise I can’t work out why ni would be used for listing off items.

10. I’m planning to take N4 in December; I think my current skill level is kinda N4-N3ish but I’m not confident to take N3 directly. Thing is, my friend gave me textbooks for N3 (SKM, saotome etc)… what do you think about using N3 materials to take N4 exam, is it not advisable?