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In this sentence:
マスク氏は、これまでにも永久停止されていたアメリカのトランプ前大統領のアカウントの復活など、重要な判断をツイッター上の投票で決めてきました。
What is 上 doing here?
Very basic question. How would you write out hirayama? I want to use it in a painting
So I have a question about politeness in passive speech.
does this make grammatical sense?
私は犬にえさをやられた
Since the target of the verb as indicated by に technically is the dog, the level of politeness would still be directed towards the grammatical target? Obviously this doesn’t happen in real life, but I thought this nonsensical example would make the grammar easier to memorize.