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Do you know ここではきものをぬいでください？ This sentence could be interpreted 2 ways. ここで履物(shoes)をぬいでください ここでは着物(clothes)をぬいでください

It is called ぎなた読み. Please google it if you are interested in

It sounds like this is fixed now.

As of today, December sixth, 2017, ろっぴき is exactly what I'm hearing from the audio.

Both are plural forms but they have differing uses. Fish refers to several individual fish, especially of the same species, while fishes refers to several species of fish and is usually used now only in biological contexts.

Both should be acceptable as far as I can tell, but fishes currently isn't. It is the historical plural form and can still be seen used as fish is sometimes, so it certainly isn't wrong.

泳いでいます (およいでいます) is the present progressive form of 泳ぐ (およぐ) meaning "to swim", so your answer needs to include "are swimming".

Six fish not fishes.

Not fluent, but here are some examples from a dictionary:

湖で泳ぐ ( みずうみでおよぐ ) swim in a lake

岸に泳ぎ着く ( きしにおよぎつく) swim 「to shore [ashore]

Basically it seems that に is used to indicate the destination, and で used to note the location of the action.

で=object used to carry out action

に=place, position marker

で is put between a noun and verb「ペンで書きください」(please write with a pen), に is put after places or positions 「建物の中に立つください」(please stand in the building)

I'm not a grammar expert, but I'll give it a shot :)

I believe the reasoning behind this relies on the fact that 泳いでいます (およいでいます) can be used for both present progressive tense and present perfect tense. This is usually clarified by the context; for example:

• 今は、泳いでいます (いまは、およいでいます) = "I am swimming now."
• 長い間泳いでいます (ながいあいだおよいでいます) = "I have been swimming for a long time."

The first sentence is plain old present progressive tense, since all we know is that the action of "swim" is currently happening. However, in the second sentence, the action of "swim" occurred in the past, but is continuing in the present, therefore it is present perfect tense. Technically, present progressive is a sentence describing an action, while present perfect is describing a state of being as a result of an action in the past ("I have been swimming for a long time" = "I am now in the state of having swum for a long time in the past").

As you can see, both of these tenses use the same conjugation in Japanese, but the tense is still preserved through the context. As a result, the particles can also change to reflect the difference of action vs state. で is the particle for indicating the location where an action occurs, whereas に is the particle for indicating the target location of an action (i.e. the location of the end result of the action).

So, hopefully it makes sense that while the English translation of 池にさかなが泳いでいます is "Fish are swimming in the pond" (i.e. present progressive tense), the Japanese sentence is more like "The fish are in the state of having been swimming in the pond (since the past)." Side-note: We can't simply translate it to "Fish have been swimming in the pond" since that has ambiguities in English which don't correlate to the Japanese sentence, namely describing past experience.

On the other hand, in the case of the girl, it is much more likely that the sentence we would use is for describing what she is currently doing, not that she has always been swimming. Therefore, 女の子が池で泳いでいます is appropriate because で indicates where she is currently swimming.

Hopefully that make sense, and hopefully I haven't made any mistakes in my understanding of these particles. Honestly though, I think this type of question is the kind that even native speakers may have trouble articulating, since they wouldn't normally think about the why.

That was exactly my question. Thanks for asking it, now let's see if we can get an answer.

泳いでいます (およいでいます) is the present progressive form of 泳ぐ (およぐ) meaning "to swim", so your answer needs to include "are swimming".

Both. ひき is the "base" form; it can sometimes become びき or ぴき when it's the second part of a compound word. The former process (ひ becoming び) is known as rendaku; the latter seems to have a more interesting explanation. Apparently the Japanese phoneme /h/ was historically actually /p/.

This comment on a Language Log post contains an explanation (albeit a slightly technical one) after someone asked how 鉄（てつ） and 坂（はん） combined to make 鉄板（てっぱん）.

(Note that the romanization system used by the commenter isn't Hepburn romanization, the most commonly used one nowadays.)

"The part you’ve explicitly asked about is in bold script. You can see, I think, that what you’re dealing with is a common and regular feature of Japanese, and one that has resulted from the historical change p h at the beginning of a word (or, in the case of Sino-Japanese, of a morpheme). (I might add parenthetically that a /p/ in Old Japanese occurring in medial, intervocalic position was different; there it developed into -w-, and that’s the source of the irregular conjugation of, for example, kau ‘to buy’, so that you get, e.g., kaimasu but a /w/ in kawanai. You probably already know these things, but I thought I’d pass them along anyway, just in case.)

[...]

Many different processes relate h with p.

(1) Sino-Japanese compounds. If the Sino-Japanese pronunciation (the on reading) of a Chinese character begins with h, that h will become p following the mora nasal, or tu or ti; thus iti ‘one’ + hun ‘minute’ gives ip-pun. (The tu or ti becomes a mora consonant.)

-hun ‘minute’ ip-pun ‘one minute’ san-pun ‘three minutes’

-hatu ‘departure’ syuppatu ‘depart’ (syutu + hatu)

hookoku ‘report’ koohoo ‘official report’ denpoo ‘telegram’

(2) Intensification. Some words can be pronounced emphatically by doubling a medial consonant. Thus totemo pronounced emphatically is tottemo; amari becomes anmari. But if the medial consonant that is doubled is h, the h becomes p:

yahari yappari

yohodo yoppodo

— karappeta (from kara ‘empty’ + heta ‘unskilled’)

kuihagure kuippagure

(3) The intensive prefix ma(t)-. This prefix turns kuroi ‘black’ into makkuroi ‘jet black’; siroi ‘white’ into massiroi ‘snow white’; taira ‘flat’ into mattaira; etc. When it is combined with words that begin an h, it changes the h into p.

mapputatu ‘just exactly in two’ (hutatu ‘two’)

mappadaka ‘stark naked’ (hadaka ‘naked’)

mappiruma ‘broad daylight’ (hiruma ‘daytime’)

(4) The prefix ko(t)- ‘small’.

koppidoku ‘a little harshly’ (hidoku ‘harshly’)

(5) Related words.

ha ‘leaf’ happa ‘leaf’ (colloquial)

hayai ‘quick’ kenkappayai ‘quick to quarrel’ (kenka ‘quarrel’)

hiroi ‘wide’ dadappiroi ‘unduly wide’

hana ‘nose’ sisippana ~ sisibana ‘pug nose’

hara ‘stomach’ karappara, sukippara ‘empty stomach’

— yoppite ‘all night long’ (from yoppitoi, which is said to be from yo hito-yo ‘one night of night’

hikaru ‘shine’ pika-pika hikaru ‘flashes with a flash’

(6) Contractions.

Phrases like omo ni miru ‘see (as) important’ contract to omonmiru ‘reflect carefully’, and omo ni suru ‘make important’ to omonziru ‘honor, respect’. In the same way, omo ni hakaru ‘estimate (as) important’ contracts to omonpakaru ‘consider’.

More examples of verbal contractions:

hiki- ‘pull’ + haru ‘stretch’ → hipparu ‘pull’

• hagu ‘strip off’ → hippagu ‘strip’

• hataku ‘slap’→ hippataku ‘slap’

oi- ‘shoo away’ + hazimeru ‘begin’ → oppazimeru ‘begin’

• hooridasu ‘throw out’ → opporidasu ‘throw out’

yoi- ‘get drunk’ + harau ‘clear away’ → yopparau ‘get drunk’

(7) The suffix -ppanasi ‘(leaving something) just as it is’. This suffix is derived from the verbal forms hanasi ‘leaving it’.

Examples:

tuke-ppanasi ‘leave turned on’

ake-ppanasi ‘leave open’

koware-ppanasi ‘leave unrepaired’

oki-ppanasi ‘leave lying somewhere’

tati-ppanasi ‘remain standing’

(hon o) kari-ppanasi ‘(books are) unreturned’"

This other page gives a much shorter explanation of when /h/ becomes /p/.

"The ha, hi, fu, he, ho (はひふへほ and ハヒフヘホ) sounds were originally pa, pi, pu, pe, po, sounds which are today indicated by a circle handaku diacritic (ぽぴぷぺぽ、パピプペポ). The sounds shifted as a result of a process linguists call bilabial dissimilation, enabling modern speakers of foreign languages to marvel at how it's possible for many Japanese to speak with a minimum of mouth movement.

In modern standard Japanese, the unvoiced pa, pi, pu, pe, po handaku pronunciations occur in these cases:

1. Following a nasal n ん, except after "four"よん

2. Sokuon and Handaku: In kanji compounds, after a kanji whose the pronunciation ends in ち or つ, and the following consonant is not voiced, the ち or つ are dropped and the lengthening of the following handaku consonant is indicated by a writing small tsu (っ)."

Not quite sure what you are trying to ask. ひ, び, and ぴ are allophones, which means they are the sound variations of the same word. They are the same counter.

"Lake" would be 湖 (みずうみ, or commonly こ as a suffix).

No, the plural of "fish" is also "fish", the same as singular.

This is talked about extensively in this thread.. please read through the whole thread before posting.

ひき/匹 is fine for fish. So is こん, but it is arguably archaic and less used. So much so that I can't even get my computer to come up with 喉 without typing のど instead...

This is talked about extensively in this thread.. please read through the whole thread before posting.

Why do you post incorrect English sentences?