{"id":3607,"date":"2022-01-19T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:11:49","slug":"mimi-bunpou014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/mimi-bunpou014\/","title":{"rendered":"I hear the expression\u300c\u304a\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec\u300d: is that grammatically correct in Japanese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8211; Vol.14 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ARC teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-line4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3412\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"border: 5px solid #e2cdd9; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px; background: ##ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\uff31\uff1aI hear the expression\u300c\u304a\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec\u300d: is that grammatically correct in Japanese?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\uff21<\/strong><\/span>\uff1a<\/p>\r\n<p>\u3000<span>If you noticed the superfluous <\/span>\u201c\u304a\u201d in the word\u300c\u304a\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec\u300d<span>, it means that you are doing everything well with your <em>keigo<\/em> study. Obviously, it<\/span>\u2019s great that you want to use the most correct version of Japanese.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0 When adding the honorific prefixes \u201c\u304a\u201d and \u201c\u3054\u201d to the nouns, there is in fact the rule that says that you don\u2019t add the 2 prefixes before <em>katakana<\/em> words, loans from foreign languages. Clearly the word \u201ctoilet\u201d,\u300c\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec\u300d<span>, is katakana, so the general rule still applies to this case. But in reality, Japanese people (me included) use that expression. For example the first time you go to a restaurant, we might ask<\/span>\u300c\u304a\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec\u306f\u3001\u3069\u3061\u3089\u3067\u3059\u304b\u300d<span>(otoire ha, dochiradesuka).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0 Does this mean you cannot use the expression \u300c\u304a\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec\u300d<span>? Let me share my opinion. I believe that the word<\/span>\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec <span>is, more than a loanword, it was completely assimilated by Japanese language. That<\/span>\u2019s why I feel that it\u2019s not\u300c\u00d7\u300d<span>(wrong), but rather<\/span>\u300c\u25b3\u300d<span>(partially correct, debatable).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0 Maybe, and it\u2019 only my hypothesis, maybe those people use the word\u300c\u304a\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec\u300d<span>that way because, correct or incorrect, it helps them feeling less embarrassed&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e12c23aa0265f7333e828104bca6e638-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3608 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e12c23aa0265f7333e828104bca6e638-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e12c23aa0265f7333e828104bca6e638.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Vol.14 &#8211; ARC teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language. &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I hear the expression\u300c\u304a\u30c8\u30a4\u30ec\u300d: is that grammatically correct in Japanese?\r\n\r\n#nihongo #japaneselanguageschool #\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u5b66\u6821 #\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e #\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u6559\u5e2b #jlpt #eju","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[25,26,28,23,24,27],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mimi-sensei-oshiete","category-news","tag-japanese-grammar","tag-japanese-writing","tag-jlpt-n4","tag-jlpt-n5","tag-katakana","tag-katakana-from-english"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-sensei.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}