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)?

Oh, and since Anonymous learns Japanese in hentai manga, it may be useful to point out that that same line, もう〜！お兄ちゃんったら can also be delivered with a honeyed voice and kinky undertones.