I really wish all “J” in Japanese sounded the same

I can really hear the difference between the j in じゃ、じょ、じ。

Because in Portuguese we have a J that is different from the English one, feel like じゃ uses something similar to the American English J

But じ and じょare closer to the Brazilian Portuguese one

Does anyone know how to type the dot character ・・・ or the repetition character 々々々 on the keyboard?

「なかぐろ」を変換したら・・・

・

「おなじ」or「くりかえし」を変換したら・・・

々

「てん」を変換しても・・

・

「ひとびと」を変換して「人」を消すとか

々

is there an idiom in Japanese to say "someone versus the world"?

ありがとう@Chocolate

@digorydoo I REALLY shouldn't comment on grammar questions, but I believe the difference is that in the first sentence the focus is simply on the fact that the car is parked, while in the second sentence the fact that it was actually parked by someone is just as important. (so that's why it's passive: it talks about what was done to the car by someone, while in the first sentence we don't care about what was done, we only care about the car's current state of "being parked")

Try to think about these sentences without translating them.

Sounds like a very subtle difference to me.

guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/male_female says you can't add だ to い-adjectives, e.g. in 「難しいよ」. However, I was told that だ is just the casual form of です. So, is this incorrect: 「難しいですよ」? Why? Any insights on that?

Ok, interesting.

So you can put adjectives into the past tense?

I see.

Can you do this with na adjectives, too?

Does yume puchi mean small dream?

or dream small?

It's a made up magazine name that doesn't necessarily have an exact meaning: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/47924/…

Today I saw dream petit/small.

wouldn't the quotes indicate a special usage?

"夢プチ"

The 2 terms mean nothing when combined. Individually, 夢 means dream and プチ means petit/small. This would be my answer.

I wanted to provide an answer to the quoted term only

correct

The 2 terms mean nothing when combined. Individually, 夢 means dream and プチ means petit/small. This would be my answer.

I wanted to post my previous comment as an answer.

I wanted to provide an answer for the question by stressing the meaning of the terms when used individually. There is no meaning when the terms are combined.

It appears to me that chonbo indicates a serious mistake or failure. Machigai is more commonly used for a mistake.

ちょんぼ

serious...?

yes

jisho also says "blunder"

the term is used to make a mistake

but not commonly used

chonbo indicates a serious mistake or failure

I wanted to answer the post, but wasn't sure.

Machigai is the most commonly used term.

Terms are rank ordered in jisho.

the question talks about the words in a very specific contexto, unless you're taking that contexto in account, the answer would be lacking tbh

I think the only way to proper answer that, in searching in google in japanese. In forums, reddit, and so on

unless you yourself is a player of 麻雀 and have experience with that

btw, I Always thought that Shogi and Mahjong were the same game, but names from different places. I guess I was very, very wrong

"contexto" I hate the fact that this chat keeps correcting the english words to the portuguese counterparts --'

許可を得て使用 Would it mean used with permission? I used google translate

「へま」みたいなもんやねえ

Kyoka o ete shiyō

blunder

間違いっていうより

へまとか

ケアレスミスとか

ああ

ちょんぼ

うっかりミスとか

間違いですね

不注意から犯す失敗みたいな

わからない

「間違い」と「ミス」が

必ずしも１００％同じ意味だとは

うん

思えませんが

ニュアンスが違うし

ああ

使う場面も違うね

ちょんぼはおなじですか

ミスね

Are typhoons named or numbered in Japan?

Can words such as DevilGod be written in katakana if on direct translation is possible? Would Akuma No Kami be appropriate?

Akuma no Kami, Hi No Kami?

bunken/sentence test?

reference

thanks for the clean up.

it's perfect

that question about yumepuchi is still bothering me.

I had a japanese person quiz me on words that weren't real. Really helped me learn a lot of kanji quickly.