Talk:Japanese/Grammar/Nouns

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Dinky adjective section replaced with text from Japanese grammar... -- EmperorBMA|&#35441;&#12377; 23:56, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

General plural thoughts
More emphasis should probably be made that -tachi and -ra are almost never used with non-personified nouns. Is Hoshi-tachi a good example? I've never heard stars said that way before. If I did, I would probably think you were talking to the stars as if they were people or something. I'm not a native Japanese speaker, but that's my impression.


 * Hi there, I'm a native Japanese speaker. Yes, we usually say 星々 (hoshi-boshi for stars), 木々 (ki-gi for trees), 家々 (ie-ie for houses), 人々 (hito-bito for people) etc... And, for animals, birds or fish, we use -tachi such as 動物達. Just FYI. e-Goat 15:49, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC) p.s. If you need more examples, then I can help.

Rewrite this page?
Not to be rude, but this page is suffering pretty badly. I'm not convinced the writer of this page speaks and understands Japanese language.

Nouns in Japanese are very simple. You just learn one word for one thing. That's it! You don't have learn a plural form as in English. Nor is there "grammatical gender" as there is in many other languages. Again, like English, gender is something in what the word represents, not in the word. And since this page is written in English and not Italian, gender can be entirely ignored. Let's not over-complicate things. :-)Newtonsfig (discuss • contribs) 03:56, 28 March 2014 (UTC)