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

>>240
それは、地下鉄ですか。
sorewa, chikatetsu desu ka
this is "誤変換" (misconversion from kana to kanji)
from what I know つ is not used as particle except as short for という
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