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 the fuck does that even mean?
so angry anonymous
I meant that と思う always refers to what you're thinking therefore pronouns are unneeded since it has a "direction"
Maybe if you're 80 and talking to a 4 year old you would address them as 僕
I threw that out because I only found out after a long while that it isn't strictly a 1st-person pronoun

these compact signs... what are they called? They don't look like the usual japanese to me
do you mean kanji versus kana?