
A couple linguistic questions about the Iroha poem
2021年12月7日 · Here is the text of the Iroha poem, sided with a possible translation (mine): 色は匂えど Iro wa nioedo | Colors, although bright, 散りぬるを Chirinuru wo | Will scatter. 我が世 …
pronunciation - How is the Iroha poem usually pronounced?
2015年1月15日 · I have read on Wikipedia that the Iroha poem has a modern version with updated hiragana and stuff. However, it seems that most times people recite the poem (as in, …
What is the equivalent of "alphabetical order" in Japanese?
The order used today pretty much everywhere is called Gojūon, and this is what Alenanno has described, but there's also a traditional order, with its own song, called Iroha. This order is …
How are Japanese dictionaries organized?
2019年9月14日 · The gojūon order is the prevalent system for collating Japanese in Japan. For example, dictionaries are ordered using this method. Other systems used are the iroha …
Different ways of enumeration - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
2020年11月10日 · Japanese seems to have multiple ways of enumerating sequences. The basic one is ordinal numbers: Arabic (Indian) numbers like in English: 1,2,3 classic Chinese …
How did でしょうand だろう come to mean "probably"?
2019年3月19日 · It also appears as the む in the Iroha poem. Second, the だろ- of だろう is what you get when you conjugate the copula to attach -う and then subject it to some sound …
kanji - How is 家 in [name]家 pronounced? - Japanese Language …
2015年1月13日 · How would [name]家, for example 田中家, be pronounced when referring to somebody's home in an informal or casual way? I think I've heard it pronounced ち but it could …
counters - 五十音: 50-sounder vs 50 sounds - Japanese Language …
2019年6月9日 · So 五十音 is literally "fifty sounds" as in English, but it's a fixed phrase today that only means a specific alphabetical order of kana (there are also others e.g. iroha), and its …
How to pronounce 0.11% in Japanese?
2019年6月8日 · @droooze Doubt all you want, but there are languages which do. In all the Scandinavian languages, for example, it would be very unusual to pronounce 0,11% as …