N [adobjg] A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar :white_flower: Home Thread Previous Part: M Next Part: O-R Reading Week Start Date Reading Entry Count Page Numbers Page Count #16 Jul 8th な to なら 8 266 - 284 19 #17 Jul 15th 〜なさい to に6 8 284 - 302 19 #18 Jul 22nd に7 to の2 7 302 - 317 16 …

Of course these patterns formed many hundreds or even thousands of years ago, but it was a bit depressing to see ~な and ~ないで in such sharp contrast – why is it male language to command, but female language to request? I hope the book overstates ~な note 2, at least for private communication. I also…

[image] eagleflo: Of course these patterns formed many hundreds or even thousands of years ago, but it was a bit depressing to see ~な and ~ないで in such sharp contrast – why is it male language to command, but female language to request? It’s part of the overall pattern of “female language is p…

[image] pm215: Incidentally, I have read it claimed that this kind of “women’s language” split is actually fairly recent. Wow, this is all completely new to me. Thank you for sharing. Definitely had no idea it could be so recent. This invoked a thought — maybe there is some idea in play here…

And I’m caught up! That went quicker than I thought. Just in time to prepare for the avalanche of に. ▶ な to なら ▶ 〜なさい to に6 ▶ に7 to の2 ▶ の3 to 〜のは〜だ

Typo [image] Twelvewishes: にちがないにちがいない

My highlight from previous week, I didn’t know about derogatory など: 箸でなど食べられない。なら I stumbled upon this example (it is ungrammatical, hence blurred): From the explanation I got that we can use なら for future only when we’re 100% sure it happens, right? May be its difference in languages, IDK, bu…

Was thinking about posting examples of からね seen in the wild, but well, I got so many hits (231), it’s so common than why bother :sweat_smile: Was thinking about posting examples of に seen in the wild, but well, it’s so common than why bother :sweat_smile: (and I’m not even going to look at how many…

Just read this week’s entries. I don’t feel like I knew about にしては at all, nice to learn about something completely new!

Week 18 starts now: に7 to の2 (7 entries).

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