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 really have never found that. Is it more an older generation thing?

Japs usually put the subjected being discussed at the start of a paragraph and don't repeat it every sentence, so i can see where some people MAY get confused.