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- "Mom, I'm off."
"Mom, I'm off."
Translation:お母さん、行ってきます。
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That would be for when they are talking about their parents to others.
When you talk to your parents (whether in kindergarten or older) you should use honorifics, when talking about your parents to others you shouldn't (as it sounds like you are bigging up your parents, and thus yourself), kindergarteners however are being taught to use honorifics for their parents and so do so when talking to others as well.
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The pronunciation sounds different here. "Mother" seems to be pronounced "kaha" here instead of "haha". Is this correct or a glitch?
It is correct.. Because there is a differnce in pronunciation when a kanji makes a word on its own, or when it is combined with other kanji, hiragana or katakana to make one word .. So the kanji 'haha' alone is pronunced haha while when it is combined with O and SAN it is pronounced OkahaSAN
I hope this makes sense to you : )
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I am glad that I am not the only struggling one. When could I use that on the street?
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i wrote 「おかあさん行ってきます」 and it was marked wrong, but i'm not sure why. i thought in written japanese, commas were optional and spaces aren't used?