Hey there Reddit, I am seeing the word アリ at the end of sentences online and was wondering what was is its grammatical function and why it’s in katakana.
It looks like it’s used as a weird form of ある、but I’d like a confirmation.
Could you give an example sentence or show a photo?
It’s sometimes easy to forget that katakana is used basically as a form of italics, not just for foreign words or emphasis. In many cases, アル is basically the same as an italicised “is”, for example, “there _is_ a ninja standing there. (But you can’t see him)”
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Could you give an example sentence or show a photo?
It’s sometimes easy to forget that katakana is used basically as a form of italics, not just for foreign words or emphasis. In many cases, アル is basically the same as an italicised “is”, for example, “there _is_ a ninja standing there. (But you can’t see him)”