# Short Grammar Questions (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Grammar\ **Created:** [May 18, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002 "2017-05-18T12:42:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 295
**Author:** ![Jonapedia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jonapedia/32/309350_2.png) [@Jonapedia](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Jonapedia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5985 "2020-11-05T18:08:13Z")
> [@Killua099](#): > > みきちゃんが、明日こないって。 > > “Miki-chan says she isn’t coming tomorrow.” > > I guess it’s like what @Jonapedia said, I had to read between the lines. Thanks for the help guys. In this case, it’s not just context. The hint here is the comma after が, which implies that the rest of the sentence is a block. However, I don’t know if a Japanese person would actually put a comma there. (Anyone with more experience or a Japanese tutor who covers writing, please correct me. I’m entirely self-taught, my friend’s tips and help aside.) You’re welcome in any case! ---
**Author:** ![Killua099](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/killua099/32/444879_2.png) [@Killua099](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Killua099)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5986 "2020-11-05T18:18:17Z")
Ok, now I get it. Thanks a lot! ---
**Author:** ![RedOliveBlue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/redoliveblue/32/284475_2.png) [@RedOliveBlue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/RedOliveBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5987 "2020-11-06T13:37:39Z")
Maybe this is the wrong thread to ask on because it is really more of a vocab question, but, The word 答え, meaning “Answer”. Is this more used in the sense of “this is my answer.” rather than “I am looking for answers”… As in, in the latter sentence the word “answer” is a bit more conceptual, but the former is more literal? Considering the synonyms for 答え are “reply/response.” I hope that makes sense? So is it possible to use 答え in a more abstract sense, or is there another word that could be used in that way? Or alternatively, have I misunderstood everything completely? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Saida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/saida/32/348936_2.png) [@Saida](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Saida)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5988 "2020-11-06T14:23:55Z")
> [@RedOliveBlue](#): > > So is it possible to use 答え in a more abstract sense, or is there another word that could be used in that way? For more abstract uses I think it would mostly be written as 応え, but it’s essentially the same word. Both read こたえ. > [@RedOliveBlue](#): > > Maybe this is the wrong thread to ask on because it is really more of a vocab question, but, Do you know [The quick or short Language Questions Thread (not grammar)](https://community.wanikani.com/t/the-quick-or-short-language-questions-thread-not-grammar/27773)? ---
**Author:** ![RedOliveBlue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/redoliveblue/32/284475_2.png) [@RedOliveBlue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/RedOliveBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5989 "2020-11-06T14:36:09Z")
> [@Saida](#): > > Both read こたえ. Ah well if the reading is the same that is handy, because I don’t think I would be able to write it as kanji for what I’m using it for anyway, perfect 😛 Jk, thank you for the clarification! > [@Saida](#): > > Do you know [The quick or short Language Questions Thread (not grammar)](https://community.wanikani.com/t/the-quick-or-short-language-questions-thread-not-grammar/27773)? I was switching between the two threads and didn’t know which one to pick haha, of course, 50/50 I chose wrong ---
**Author:** ![Saida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/saida/32/348936_2.png) [@Saida](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Saida)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5990 "2020-11-06T14:55:16Z")
The other one is basically for everything that’s not grammar, I think! ---
**Author:** ![Burnannator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/burnannator/32/259505_2.png) [@Burnannator](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Burnannator)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5991 "2020-11-07T08:06:12Z")
Star WarsとThe Mandalorianは同じ天の川ですよ We are texting about tv shows. I want to say they tale place in the same galaxy. Is there a better way to say it? ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5992 "2020-11-07T08:14:19Z")
天の川 is our galaxy, the Milky Way. And we all know that the galaxy in Star Wars is far, far away. The general name for a galaxy is 銀河. スター・ウォーズと マンダロリアンは、同じ銀河で起こる。 You might also just say 設定が一緒です (the setting is the same). But maybe that’s not literally true… I haven’t seen The Mandalorian. ---
**Author:** ![Burnannator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/burnannator/32/259505_2.png) [@Burnannator](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Burnannator)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5993 "2020-11-07T08:20:22Z")
Thank you sir/mam! ---
**Author:** ![Saida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/saida/32/348936_2.png) [@Saida](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Saida)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5994 "2020-11-07T08:31:38Z")
> [@Leebo](#): > > 設定 Is this nlt just technical settings, like on your phone or something? ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5995 "2020-11-07T08:33:30Z")
It can be used for the general principles or information used to create anything. It can get used for the setting in a story. Here’s a Japanese person talking about how to say ストーリーの設定 in English. > **[英語で「ストーリーの設定」とはどういえばよいのでしょうか？ - 「このストーリーは、設定は面白そうと思ったんだけど、話が進むに... - Yahoo!知恵袋](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q13131132063)** > > 英語で「ストーリーの設定」とはどういえばよいのでしょうか？ 「このストーリーは、設定は面白そうと思ったんだけど、話が進むにつれて面白くなくなったね」などどいったりしますが、こういうときのストーリーの設定、とはどういえばいいのかな、と思うのです。この場合の「設定」とは、「このストーリーがどんな場所で繰り広げられるのか、いつの時代なのか、主人公はどんな人なのか、その人が何をするのか、なぜそれをするのか」・・... The Jisho entry does mention story settings too. > **[Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary](https://jisho.org/word/%E8%A8%AD%E5%AE%9A)** > > Powerful and easy-to-use online Japanese dictionary with words, kanji and example sentences. ---
**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5996 "2020-11-07T08:33:48Z")
> [@Leebo](#): > > But maybe that’s not literally true… I haven’t seen The Mandalorian. It’s literally the same. They even visit the same cantina in Mos Eisley on Tattooine in the first season. ---
**Author:** ![anon47853453](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@anon47853453](https://community.wanikani.com/u/anon47853453)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5997 "2020-11-07T17:35:00Z")
Got another question while reading City Hunter. Here’s the panel in question: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/2/9/5/2951e368f1ee5632f3ab9e1eb9f243ee572daf33.jpeg) I get what the rest of the sentence means, but what is the ぁな in the おれぁな meant to be? ---
**Author:** ![Saida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/saida/32/348936_2.png) [@Saida](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Saida)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5998 "2020-11-07T17:51:15Z")
Looks like a は with the h sound cut off, to me. Like a masculine 俺はね with な・ね being a filler word. ---
**Author:** ![Jonapedia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jonapedia/32/309350_2.png) [@Jonapedia](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Jonapedia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/5999 "2020-11-07T17:58:55Z")
> [@anon47853453](#): > > I get what the rest of the sentence means, but what is the ぁな in the おれぁな meant to be? Was about to say what @Saida said, though I would have said the ‘W’ sound was cut off. Just another example of something similar I saw in a Japanese movie (君は月夜に光り輝く) on the plane once: しなけあなりません. It’s probably another way of contracting しなければなりません, for which the usual contraction in Tokyo is しなきゃ… It’s not rare for the sounds before the vowel to be simplified in some way, like それは becoming そりゃ or 行って来る becoming 行ってくりゅ. (That last example is more of a way of expressing excitement/making a character sound cute though – I’ve only ever seen it in one anime.) This stuff will come to mind more naturally once you’ve seen more common contractions. ---
**Author:** ![anon47853453](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@anon47853453](https://community.wanikani.com/u/anon47853453)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/6000 "2020-11-07T19:52:54Z")
@Saida @Jonapedia Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![NyappyTiramisu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/nyappytiramisu/32/345668_2.png) [@NyappyTiramisu](https://community.wanikani.com/u/NyappyTiramisu)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/6001 "2020-11-07T20:21:38Z")
I just found this sentence while looking up とかく and am quite confused as to what the second part means: 彼は自分も出来ていないのに、人のことをとかく言っていて気分が悪い。 I wasn’t able to figure out that second part at all but I entered it into deepl and it gave me “He’s not able to do it himself, but he’s talking about other people and that makes me sick.” Is that correct? If so, how do I know the 気分が悪い part is referring to the speaker and not the person that is being talked about? ---
**Author:** ![Saida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/saida/32/348936_2.png) [@Saida](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Saida)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/6002 "2020-11-07T21:10:11Z")
> [@NyappyTiramisu](#): > > If so, how do I know the 気分が悪い part is referring to the speaker and not the person that is being talked about? I don’t know about the translation, but in Japanese you usually can’t refer to another person’s feelings in absolute terms. If it were about someone else, it would probably be 気分が悪そうだ。 Having looked up とかく, I now realize it’s one of the many ways to say とにかく, and agree with the DeepL translation. ---
**Author:** ![buburoi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/buburoi/32/333739_2.png) [@buburoi](https://community.wanikani.com/u/buburoi)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/6003 "2020-11-07T21:10:20Z")
人のことを言う is an expression if somebody finds fault with other people rather than oneself. The て-form is often used to give the reason for an emotion. So him (彼) tending to find fault with others than himself is the reason for feeling sick. I think this emotion is attributed to the speaker because if the speaker talked about another person’s feelings this would be made clear with a different expression that expressed a distance to said feelings. Correct me if I’m wrong. ✌ ---
**Author:** ![ashleylm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/ashleylm/32/285095_2.png) [@ashleylm](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ashleylm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002/6004 "2020-11-08T01:38:16Z")
これは vs それは … I know that for a concrete object, e.g. the cup I’m holding would be これ but that cup on the shelf is それ … but what about **abstract situations** , the kind of thing that in English you’d sigh and say “This is difficult … but I’m afraid I must you that your aunt is no longer with” or that sort of thing. I feel instinctively I ought to say それは難しです but have really no reason to back me up (perhaps I’m heard it oftener said on anime, which is hardly a ringing grammatical endoresement). Ought it be これは難しです instead? Or perhaps it doesn’t matter … [Previous page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002.md?page=294) [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/short-grammar-questions-part-1/18002.md?page=296)