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meaning of 最初にして最後の見せ場
Context: the boy has just died while saving a girl and is now in the afterlife.
「……あの女の子は。……俺が突き飛ばした女の子は、生きてますか？」" 大切な事だった。 俺の人生で、
最初にして最後
の見せ場だったのだ。 命懸けで助けに入って、結局間に合わなかったのだとしたら悔し過ぎる"
It has been translated as:
That girl … the one I pushed out…
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Why can't I say してますよって感を出す?
It seems 感 in 感を出す often directly follows a noun:
絵に立体感を出そうと苦心した (source)
マット感を出したい/ウエット感を出したい (source)
新商品のプロモは高級感を出そう (source)
A lot of 漢語 + 感 patterned words seem already lexicalized and are understandably so used. カタカナ語 + 感 follows the…
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Is ないとだ correct Japanese?
A: めっちゃ好き かっこよすぎ
B: だね
A:あッ 来週ドラマ出るし 見ないとだよ
From the context (them talking about a celebrity), I understood that "見ないとだ" is similar to "見ないといけない". But when I searched for it online, an user on https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/240162 said that…
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Parse and make sense of 女子を接客のメインにさせて?
「私から補足すると、今の時代に女子を接客のメインにさせて男受けを狙うと色々とうるさいんだ」
How should I parse the bold part? Is it AをBにする construction (make A into B)? Or is メインにする considered to be an intransitive verb? If it is the former, why is 使役態 (させる) used in this sentence? Should the…
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Does the legality/idiomaticness of verb+のの+方 depend on the verb?
Today when discussing language learning, I was corrected by a heritage Japanese speaker friend who changed what I said
多分書くのの方が難しいと思う
to
多分書くのの方が難しいと思う
However, the discussion emerging from this post seems to suggest 書くのの方 is correct while 書くの方…
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Is 「如何に～か」a construction on its own? Understanding「 か」 used before「って」
The sentence is taken from the 4th volume of 『裏バイト』
「そして、母さんが、如何に高いレベルにいたかって事。」
Context:
A son whose mother is a successful designer has returned home for the first time in 10 years. His main reason for leaving his parents was that he aspired to…
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Trouble with use of まで and 頼む
I think I understand the general idea but I have trouble with the construction of this sentence. The situation is that he injured himself earlier and now he's tired. I guess he's saying something like "I shouldn't have injured myself", but I have…
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「が分かるようにできる」についての質問
日本語
32変数のd次方程式って32個があったら大抵変数を分かるようにできます。
この文を書いてたんですけど、間違えてたと思います。「何々が分かるようになる」を使えるのは分かりますが、「何々を分かるようにする」ってあってますか？僕の原因でそのことが分かるようになったみたいなことを言いたいです。
英語
First, for accurate context, a mathematically solid version thanks to…
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use of たる in 礎たる資質
This is a sentence from a character bio, but for whatever reason―maybe the author's quirky―they've written it in a really verbose way in what seems to be classical Japanese. I get the general gist of most of it but this one phrase is getting me kind…
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Constructing て-form of ～ちゃくれない
In this sentence:
夜は貫いちゃくれないよ
I'm having trouble constructing the phrase 貫いちゃくれない.
From what I understand, it should be parsed like this:
貫く + て-form + しまう(ちゃう) + て-form + くれる + ない
But this makes 貫いちゃってくれない, and I don't know how it is possible to…
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Is this still valid すきはなんですか?
People say that the correct way to ask "what do you like" is なにがすきですか but if I use すきはなんですか is that still consider grammatically correct? and will people raise an eyebrow at me?
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Questions about the construction A が B(B is a noun)+のだ/のである?
「……そんな危険な大学出身者どもを、ありがたく受け入れるのが塾講師業界ってんだから」
Hi. The speaker is a 塾講師 and he is talking with a stranger in a bar.
Hi. I have some problems with the bold part. I know it equals 業界というのだから. But I’m not sure if the という is 伝聞 here.
Grammatically speaking,…
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