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Questions tagged [pattern]

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Is 仕方 a particular case of the pattern V連用形 + 方?

There is a pattern to express the way of doing things. First comes a verb in the 連用形 form, and after that comes the word 方{かた}. For example: 食べ + 方 → 食べ方 (the way of eating) 読み + 方 → 読み方 (the way of reading) Given that the 連用形 of the verb する (to…
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How do you identify the point of view in Japanese (for novels)?

Since subjects are very often ommited, I find it hard to identify whether I'm reading a segment in the first person or the third person. What are the patterns to look for to identify one or the other? Is it common to jump between the two or are they…
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Difference between そうになっていた and そうになった?

しかし、士道は荒れそうになっていた呼吸をどうにか整えると、どこにいるとも知れない狂三に言葉を投げた。 Hi. Can we change the bold part into そうになった? If we can, what would be the difference between そうになっていた and そうになった? Thank you.
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Difference between the patterns 何 + COUNTER + か and 何 + COUNTER + も

私は今年何度か海外に行きました。 [SOURCE] I have been abroad several times this year. 北海道へ何度も行った I have been to Hokkaido many times. 本を何冊も読む。[SOURCE] I read several books. 本を何冊か買いました。 I bought some books. 何杯か飲んだ後で [SOURCE] After a couple of…
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Is っていうんですか／っていうんだ used for emphasis in the context?

「それで……令音さん、夕弦は一体どこに消えたっていうんですか？」 Context: 夕弦 vanished and 士道 was asking about her whereabouts. 耶俱矢「さぁて、忘れてはおらぬだろうな。我らが聖戦の前に交わした契約を！」 士道「ちゃんと覚えてるよ。……んで？一体何させようっていうんだ？」 Context: 耶俱矢 and 士道 entered a competition and agreed that the winner could…
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Is there any pattern to tell which verb of the two is transitive and which is intransitive?

Let me first explain what I mean. Take these two pairs for example: 付く、付ける (the first one is intransitive, the second one is transitive) 抜く、抜ける (the first one is transitive, the second on is intransitive) (of course, つく has a lot of…
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Conjugation patterns for u-dropping verbs

I was given a table by my book: The pattern I spotted is, except for u-dropping verbs ending in つ, we have that every verb preserves its consonant (s, k, g, m, n, b, w or r) when conjugated. Thus, this simplifies to the following pattern: for masu…
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