"Is it near?"

Translation:近いですか?

June 29, 2017

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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/JohnPMChappell

近いですか。


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Arn272599

ありがとうございます


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/LawalArnol

Why is it ちかい not ちかく?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/HolomorphicShawn

In general, you use 近い as the adjective form by itself or talking about the nearness of something

The station is nearby - 駅は近いです

You'll use the adverb form 近く when talking about the nearness in relationship to another object. You usually see it as OBJECTの近く:

The cat is near the bag - 猫は鞄の近くです


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/vngdhuyen

so the same goes for とおい and とおく?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/hollt693

But in the case of 猫は鞄の近くです, isn't -の近く functioning as a preposition (or a postposition, as it were), just like -の上, -の間, etc., rather than an adverb? Or am I wrong?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/davidd1235

Yeah... Is there a grammatical difference between those two phrases?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Aelianos

I believe you make it -く and add ない when you want to make it negative. Otherwise you just leave it -い

ちかい means close ちかくない means not close

I think most adjectives ending in -い change like this.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Dylan_Nicholson

Why is just "近い?" not right? From what I've heard in casual speech sentences that are just a single noun or adjective inflected as a question are pretty common.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/JWong60254

It's accepted now (at least with the fullwidth question mark).


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Dylan_Nicholson

I actually suspect it doesn't care whether you use a question mark at all, but thanks. Cool colour scheme, btw!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/NessDan

Would "chikai ka" be valid?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/SpencerTup

近いですか。 近い(ちかい)(near) です(is, am, are) か(question marker) 。 It's it near?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sana12242

丁寧語じゃなくて友達に聞く時とかは「近い?」とか「それ、近い?」って言う。


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/CobiCobi

「近いか」が不正確とか、笑える。


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/neko374701

going from "it takes about 5 minutes to get from the train station to the hotel by car", i dont think "is it near" is a hard question

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