An introduction to Japanese - Syntax, Grammar & Language
5.3. USING NUMBERS 271 5.3.3 More advanced mathematics While there are many topics that we could treat here, this isn’t a book o ...
272 CHAPTER 5. COUNTERS AND COUNTING and move on to the next chapter, which deals with more general language paĴerns. ...
Chapter 6 Language paĴerns So far we’ve covered verbal grammar, particles, and counters, as well as a handful of related ”handy ...
274 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS the word , literally ”direction”, in the following questioning paĴern: X [Y] [ / ] [some judgem ...
6.1. COMPARISONS, PREFERENCES AND CHOICE 275 6.1.2 Open choices If you want to have a larger collection of items to choose from, ...
276 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS 6.1.3 Comparison through likeness, and impressions Closely related to choices is the concept of ...
6.1. COMPARISONS, PREFERENCES AND CHOICE 277 ond hand information due to reading a book or watching a documentary on television, ...
278 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS (etc.) is used instead. As such, both of the following sentences are possible: ”This is how (yo ...
6.1. COMPARISONS, PREFERENCES AND CHOICE 279 ”good customs” (’good style’). A special set of words with this likeness adverb is ...
280 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS speaker of how Kimura would behave in the situation. It can also apply to Kimura herself speaki ...
6.1. COMPARISONS, PREFERENCES AND CHOICE 281 Traits, general likeness This noun suffix is comparable to the English suffix ”-i ...
282 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS Prone Closely related to likeness, the noun adjective is used to compare something in the ”pr ...
6.1. COMPARISONS, PREFERENCES AND CHOICE 283 6.1.4 Discussing possibilities Related to choices, comparisons and likeness, there ...
284 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS Possibility of You can, of course, also be more literal when talking about the possibility of ...
6.2. NOMINALISING 285 Uncertainty - [X] [Y] Finally, there will also be times when you are generally uncertain about whether or ...
286 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS 6.2.1 Back referral using The simplest nominaliser is just the nominalising. This turns any cla ...
6.2. NOMINALISING 287 Another example of the use of can be seen in the following example: ”Would (you) like to add anything to w ...
288 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS lates to ”that which is ’being able to keep a secret secret’”. This is different from an abstra ...
6.2. NOMINALISING 289 comment is made. can of course also be used for verb phrases, in which case it follows the : ”In case (I) ...
290 CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE PATTERNS 6.2.6 Describing an occurrence using If you want to describe something that occurs or can occur ...
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