Japanese - Ask questions thread

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To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

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I'm not fluent but Space ALC gives your translation for 'new neighbor'
http://eow.alc.co.jp/new%20neighbor/UTF-8/?ref=sa

for some reason what came to my mind was 'shin nyuu sha' （新入者） but that's also 'invader' （侵入者）