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Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Japanese-language words and phrases .
Japanese commonly use proverbs, often citing just the first part of common phrases for brevity. For example, one might say i no naka no kawazu (井の中の蛙, 'a frog in a well') to refer to the proverb i no naka no kawazu, taikai o shirazu (井の中の蛙、大海を知らず, 'a frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean').
The head of a phrase either precedes its modifier (head-initial) or follows it (head-final). Some of these phrase types, with the head marked in boldface, are: genitive phrase, i.e., noun modified by another noun ("the cover of the book", "the book's cover"); noun governed by an adposition ("on the table", "underneath the table");
In the Japanese language, aizuchi (Japanese: 相槌 or あいづち, IPA:) are interjections during a conversation that indicate the listener is paying attention or understands the speaker (backchanneling). In linguistic terms, these are a form of phatic expression. Aizuchi are considered reassuring to the speaker, indicating that the listener ...
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This is a list of kigo, which are words or phrases that are associated with a particular season in Japanese poetry.They provide an economy of expression that is especially valuable in the very short haiku, as well as the longer linked-verse forms renku and renga, to indicate the season referenced in the poem or stanza.
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