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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ooh that makes it clear, I knew it was a direct object but I didn't really know what that meant lol

>You always use が with ほしい.
Then how come when I do a google search with quotes and を comes up with like 23x more results?