Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (June 05, 2023)

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1. What is the difference between につれて and ～ば～ほど? If I wanted to say *As time passed, he became stronger*, which do I use?

2. Here’s a line from Genki 1:

   > 日本人の友だちをたくさん作って、日本語でいろいろなこと 話したいと思っています。

   I know that the meaning of the て form in this case is decided by the end of the sentence. So if the final verb is past tense, the て form has that meaning too. But what about here? Does it take the meaning of the たい or the ています? I would guess たい and the meaning is something like “I want to make lots of friends and talk about lots of things in Japanese,” but I don’t think I’ve ever seen the て form take a たい meaning like this before.

3. Been reading Harry Potter in Japanese, and I’m at the scene where the first year students are getting sorted into their houses. The Sorting Hat says to Harry, 「さて、どこに入れたものかな？」

    

   Why is it phrased like this (especially with the verb in た-form) if it’s about a decision that hasn’t been made yet, and where can I learn more about this grammar pattern? I tried searching and only found ～たものだ, which I already knew but seems to be a completely different grammar point.

4. I’m looking for a video game suggestion that only has hiragana like Pokemon, but requires more reading to progress in the game. I just finished Genki 1 and 2, have 3000 Anki cards in my rotation, and have read a decent amount of Tadoku stories ( [https://tadoku.org/](https://tadoku.org/) ), if that gives an idea of my skill level.

   My only issue with Pokemon was that I find it too easy to skip past dialogue because I have played it so much and don’t need dialogue to know what to do next

   I am okay with kanji but it would have to have furigana because I’m learning vocab and grammar before doing a full review of all the kanji, so kana is preferred

5. I’ve seen some clips of people using きつい or きっつ, and roughly translated to “cringe”. E.g. “That joke was cringe.” Is this an accurate translation? Can it be used on people? (This guy is being cringe)

6. What do Japanese people call cuddling, particularly in bed? I googled it, but got a lot of differing answers that seemed a little off

7. I got a shirt that says “人を待たない”. Does it just mean “dont wait for other people” as like a message for others or does it mean “I don’t wait for other people”? Google says both is right im confused