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)?

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NEWS FLASH: Translation isn't an exact science.  There is no one absolute correct way to translate even most basic sentences, and there are few words in one language that EXACTLY match up (not just simple meaning but also nuance-wise) to a word in another language.