Reflexive pronouns, i.e. pronouns that are preceded or followed by the noun, adjective, adverb or pronoun to which they refer in the same clause.
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自分 and 自身, what's the difference
I am having some trouble telling the difference between the two. Don't they both mean "myself"? And so does 私自身, right? I don't get the difference, when you would you use any of them and how to choose. I guess that 自分 doesn't necessarily point to…
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自分 How to know what it means?
自分 can mean myself and yourself but, how do you know when the speaker is referring to him/herself or to you? As in, how could you know when the speaker is saying "myself" instead of "yourself" (to the listener)?
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Plural reflexives: among themselves
Suppose there are two groups/teams A and B within the same conversational space, and I'm in group A. How would I say:
"they (group B) discussed among themselves" (as opposed to discussing with group A)
"they quarrelled among themselves" (as…
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Can 自身 be used to refer to 2 people in the same sentence?
Starting from the sentence:
それにもかかわらず、新渡戸と内村は女性の状況や権利に特別な関心を抱き、これについての文書を多数残している。
Do I need to add 2「自身」to give the meaning "Nitobe and Uchimura themselves"?
それにもかかわらず、新渡戸自身と内村自身は女性の状況や権利に特別な関心を抱き、これについての文書を多数残している。
Can I accomplish the meaning…
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Understanding Susumu Kuno's example of misuse of 自分
On Wikipedia's page for Logophoricity, there is an example of that concept in Japanese.
On this Wikipedia page, sentences from Susumu Kuno's 1972 journal article Pronominalization, Reflexivization, and Direct Discourse are used as examples of when…
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