This thread is for grammar questions that are too short to create a new topic for them. We used to have a thread like this but it’s been archived. If your question is more comlplex, maybe do make a new thread. I’ll start: I know that in Japanese, 行く and 来る are from the perspective of the speaker, …

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Jisho’s example sentences are all just scraped from a site that collects sentences and their translations into other languages. There’s no guarantee of what sentence was the “original” one. It might not even be the Japanese or English, though obviously Jisho doesn’t scrape the other languages. In ot…

Sorry, not a grammar question. but could not find a good place to ask. Can anyone post a link of the script that made it imposible to go to the next review right after you get one wrong. (so you dont press next since you thought you got the answer right, without looking up what the corect word was) …

[image] Candygaming: but could not find a good place to ask You could just make a new topic.

I dont like topics that only needs one reply :wink:

Better than posting an irrelevant question in a random topic. :man_shrugging:

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but the double-check script seems pretty similar: [image] [Userscript]: Double-Check (Version 2.x) API And Third-Party Apps Wanikani Double-Check A multi-feature companion script for Wanikani reviews. (Credit to …

yeah it would be the double check lightning mode.

「あなたには言っとかないと！」 It seems ～とかない implies a sense of need (from とく), but what is going on with (a) the 言っと conjugation and (b) the negative conjugation of とくない Is it saying “I don’t need to tell you” or “I need to tell you”? Does the かない in this case imply some kind of ～なきゃ-like thing?

It’s a contraction of ておかない. So ておく means “to do beforehand/in preparation”. Then this is turned into the negative form with と、 which is actually short for ておかないといけない. Negative verb + といけない means “you must/have to” do the verb. Literally it means if you don’t do the verb, you cannot go on (livin…

[image] filkry: あなたには言っとかないと！ This should be ‘I need to tell you (in advance)’. The に marks who the action of 言う is aimed at, not who is speaking. Double particles are tricky. :confused: since はis ‘only’ a topic marker (it does have some more functions but), in case of double particles I pa…

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I-am-ice-cream March 27, 2020, 11:38am 4421

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but the double-check script seems pretty similar:

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