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Lostaholic
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Need some help little bit confused

Postby Lostaholic » September 24th, 2007 10:43 am

Ok so we have:

This - kore
that - sore
that over there - are

this(in front of a noun) kono
that(in front of a noun) sono
that over there(in front of a noun) ano

here - koko
there - soko
over there - asoko

Where - Doko
What - Nani
who - Dare
why -
when -
how -
which -

So is this correct so far? and could someone pleas fill in the missing spots? that would be realy cool! thx in advance

greets tibo

Jason
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Re: Need some help little bit confused

Postby Jason » September 24th, 2007 12:58 pm

Lostaholic wrote:So is this correct so far?

Yep.

Some of them have multiple possibilities.

A more polite but very common set of the "location" pronouns. These are also used for pointing out people ("this is so-and-so.") DON"T use どれ/それ/あれ with people.

here/this person - こちら
there/that person - そちら
over there/that person over there - あちら

This series more accurately means "in this/that direction" but usually just gets boiled down into "here/there/over there."

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why - なんで、どうして、なぜ
when - いつ
how - どうやって
which* - どちら、どれ、どんな

*There are 2 kinds of "which"s. One is in the sense of "which one out of some collection of stuff." どちら and どれ are this kind. どちら means "which out of exactly 2" and どれ means "which out of 3 or more." どちら is also a more polite version of どこ, "where."

There's also another kind of "which" in the sense of "what kind of." That's どんな.

Also, a more polite and very common version of だれ is どなた.
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