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)?

What are some very common dialect words I might hear often?

like nai = hen
also I think seya naa (seyana?) is one too, I know what it means but I don't see it in a dictionaries or anything