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Bookmark or Share- What exactly is "なの" (nano)? - Japanese Language Stack ExchangeI asked a female Japanese friend to translate a sentence for me and it ends in "nano" which I took to be either an alternative question particle to -ne or -ka; or possibly two particles I don't know which could come together. But just now I looked it up in wwwjdict and it tells me it's a "feminine copula". So does this mean "なの" (nano) is a ...
- What are the differences between じ and ぢ, and ず and づ?The Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries can mostly be described as phonetic. But there are two exceptions, the two pairs of syllables modified to be voiced with the dakuten diacritic which turns them into homophones: す (su) → ず (zu); つ (tsu) → づ (zu) し (shi) → じ (ji); ち (chi) → ぢ (ji) The same goes for katakana:
- How do you say "the" in japanese?In Japanese, the definiteness and plurality of a noun is implicit. That means you can't tell without context if a noun is singular or plural, or if it's definite or indefinite. A single Japanese noun can be translated in five different ways. For example: neko 猫 Cat. A cat. The cat. Cats. The cats.. That's not to say you can't specify.
- What is the meaning of all those "w"s in email and SNSs?www is Internet slang like lol in Japanese. It stands for warai (笑い), often used on online message boards. 笑 is like www, it's another internet slang, like lol in Japanese. You will also see people adding 笑 at the end of sentences on the Internet just like the example you gave.
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