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日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-24 7:01

If you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

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Name: Anonymous 2012-05-13 17:07

>>236

No, it's している negated → していない from which い is frequently dropped, becoming してない, then ない often becomes ねえ in casual speech, making してねえ. We add よ on top of this making something meaning "(I) don't do that", "(I'm) not doing that", etc.

>>237
Let me just first say that you have given virtually no context at all. This makes it very difficult to give any real interpretation to the sentence, and frankly it's very irritating to try and work with. Japanese is a very contextual language, meaning we need to know what is happening to interpret many statements, and even in English or other languages we check our assumptions against what we know about the situation. Still, we can note a few things.

The first part says "someone can do this even if they aren't a staff member", not "we can do it without staff members" (that would be 部員がいなくても, not 部員じゃなくても). The second part is pretty much what you said. Make what you will of it.

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