S [adobjg] A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar :white_flower: Home Thread Previous Part: O - R Next Part: T Reading Week Start Date Reading Entry Count Page Numbers Page Count #22 Aug 19th さ to 〜し〜 (“し2”) 6 381 - 398 18 #23 Aug 26th しか to それで 6 398 - 414 17 #24 Sep 2nd それでは to すぎる 6 41…

[image] Akashelia: ～さ - Loving this dictionary but you really need to be rested and focus to understand the English sentences sometimes :sweat_smile: Thinking of Note 3., “When an adjective can be paired with another adjectival antonum, the positive counterpart tends to acquire a meaning of abso…

I found it a little odd that ~し~ gets an entry in this dictionary as an ‘infix’, because to my mind it isn’t grammar at all any more. In Classical Japanese these two categories were く adjectives and しく adjectives, and they did inflect slightly differently. But in modern Japanese there’s no grammar d…

Here starts week 23, しか to それで. 6 entries this week. :slight_smile:

しか I thought I knew しか well but I hadn’t realized that it was marking the element before it, that matters a lot in a longer sentence. So: 戸田さんしかたばこを吸わない → 戸田さんはたばこしか吸わない → Also I didn’t know that ばかり couldn’t be used on single entities.

し(“1”): I learnt this one as marking a reason, and you could have many of those in a sentence. It was never mentioned it worked as “and”, although I suppose I could have inferred that. Some of the key sentences seemed weird to me, but if し just works as an empathic and, then they do make sense. I wo…

Hello book club! I’m going to be joining in super late! :smile: I recently found ADoBJG in my desk at work, and I’ve been trying to find a way to better incorporate grammar into my study routine, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. I read a few of last week’s sections to get a feel for the…

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Last week (#25) of S is here. 好きだ to すると, which is 7 entries.

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And now on to week 24, それでは to すぎる. 6 entries this week too.

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