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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So the の makes it more formal I take it?
I was thinking one meant 'the number of differences are few', and the other 'the degree of difference is small'. But I really don't know.