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)?

"oniichan ttara" or "oniichan tteba" is an exclamation along the lines of "oh you oniichan!", as pronounced with an exasperated tone.

Not sure what it is an abbreviation of. Maybe a contraction of "to ittara"/"to itteba" (compare だから、お金がないってば！ "Give me a break already, I told you I'm broke"), but I'm not positive that it is.