Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

how do you know which な is which? Like how な can be like, "don't do this" then it can be agreeable, then it can be a short version of nasai