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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eh me again, after further inspection, it does seem like just a ない clone, is there any other differences? Is it some kind of dialect, or just slang?