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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I had problems with my particles but then I searched torrents for any help, and I found this, http://search.utorrent.com/search.php?q=japanese%20particles&e=http%3a%2f%2fwww.mininova.org%2fsearch%2f%3futorrent%26search%3d&u=1
I tried learning particles from websites, but I was confused as hell, and they never seemed like they worked. In example, websites tell you で=by way of, but how would that explain テーブルのうえであそんでいる

but this book PDF exlains it, it explains like fucking 188 uses of like 60 particles