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)?

>>983
探さないとダメだった or 探さなきゃダメだった might be better because they are informal, unisex, and widely used both in real life and on the internet. >>987's examples are also spoken form of "have to search for something" but they're either dialect or mostly used on internet forums like 2ch.