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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If you search google with it set as default to English, を has way more prevalence. Weird. Maybe it's from a bunch of English users attempting to do Japanese and all failing, heh