I suspect I am not understanding this correctly but snail's comment seems to contradict the answer...

> It is from 'classical' grammar, or rather Early Middle Japanese. -し is the 連体形 (the 'attributive' form, used to modify nouns) of the past tense marker -き.

What's the proper way to flag my own question as a duplicate lol

cc @EddieKal cause you commented

ok I can vote to close??

but not actually close

@Riolku sorry just saw your ping. seems like you've got it figured out?

lol yeah wtv, it works

ty

np

oh yeah @Chocolate I've been wondering, is ですかね a Kansai dialect thing or is it also valid in Tokyo dialect

also Eddie is the "related posts" finder shit when I'm posting questions? I swear this is the second time I've posted something and someone immediately finds something with my exact question

Hi! Japan people! Japan and Kanji- my love at first sight :)

also, if I have a question and someone links a post that answers my question, what is the best way for me to close the question immediately?

If the post is on our site, you can flag to have it closed as a duplicate.

@EddieKal 過去の助動詞「き」は、終止形が「き」、連体形が「し」です。「選ばれし者」の「し」はこれです。

@EddieKal スネイルさんのコメント前半は、↑この「き(し)」のことです。

スネイルさんのコメント後半は、形容詞「べし・べき」「よし・よき」の話で、

形容詞「べし・よし」は、終止形が「べし・よし」で、連体形が「べき・よき」です。

= "... classical adjective conjugation, where 〜し is the 終止形 and 〜き is the 連体形."

@Riolku 「～ですかね」は、標準語で使いますね。

@Chocolate I just noticed that I starred a message by mistake and now it's saying I can't undo it. Can you?

了解です。ありがとうございます。

@By137 あちょっと待って。。。えと、１０時間前のですよね？

できた気がします

はい、それです。

ありがとうございます！！

:) О как я рад познакомиться с @Chocolate! !

Is it natural to say が多くです ?

why not 多い

Why not 多く?

Perhaps, in this case, 多く is taken as the adverbial form of 多い, so it doesn't make sense to say 多くです. I'm not sure...

@Nameless yes, and related:

Eddie are you a mod?

Not of this site

Is there something on profiles that I can use to check lol

I'm not really sure what I'm looking for

it shows that Chocolate is a mod I think? Eddie has it in his desc, but

nvm

it has a giant diamond to indicate it

for chocolate

but not for Eddie on ELL?

No

I think eddie has another account

Either way, if you're a mod on a site, the diamond will only show up on that specific site.

Chat is shared across all the SE sites, so sometimes the interface here can be a little confusing regarding who it shows is a mod. (Eddie is a mod on ELL, not JLSE.) That said at the moment it's showing me the correct diamonds for the JLSE perspective, so maybe my recollection of mod confusion is from an older version of the interface.

lol well

...whatever