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[image] mariodesu: Interesting, I never saw a month be devided in such way I don’t see it used often either. @pm215 are these for specific contexts? I think I’ve see 上旬 and 下旬 only on WaniKani and when talking about sports seasons I think?

[image] WeebPotato: I don’t see it used often either. @pm215 are these for specific contexts? I think I’ve see 上旬 and 下旬 only on WaniKani and when talking about sports seasons I think? It’s pretty normal for people to use them to refer to rough plans.

I don’t get the impression they’re super common, but jpdb says they turn up in a couple of hundred of the books in the database, including examples like まだ二学期が始まったばかりの九月の上旬である。 which isn’t sports specific or historical.

It’s extremely common at business environment at least. “when will you have it ready?” “we are aiming for 5月上旬”

It’s also pretty common in weather forecasts on the radio, where they describe the temperature as something like 「五月上旬並み」.

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Also super common for announcements about merchandise (not) coming out. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen it on predicted release times for figures and then delay announcements.

Question. Sometimes I see the okurigana of kanji being dropped in dictionaries, and I saw it happening in famous book titles as well but I can imagine it happens in a variety of situations. Is this just done for easiness of reading or what? Like 葉隠れ聞き書き (the title of a book) is shortened into 葉隠聞書…

[image] mariodesu: 葉隠れ聞き書き Specifically this, you don’t lose anything from abbreviating 聞き書き, since 聞書 is listening and writing. But what do you mean by the last part? [Screenshot_20230410_021356_Japanese Dictionary Takoboto] In general, kanji allows you to remove the hiragana and keep th…

[image] Kazzeon: Random example, I could say: 魚を食べるのが好き or 魚食好 Could you, though? I don’t think it’s possible to read the latter the same way as the former, so it’s not the same as the “sometimes okurigana aren’t shown separately when it’s a noun”. And 魚食好 has no google hits that aren’t Ch…

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