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)?

Me again, and the more I think about it, I suppose it means "you"
I just remember in anime people saying おのれ to other people when pissed off, although the context of 己 is different

I guess what I'm more interested in is a way to find the popular/correct readings when there are multiple ones..