Honorifics in Japanese: A Complete Introduction to Keigo, Sonkeigo, and Kenjogo Honorifics play a huge role in the Japanese language. They define underlying power dynamics and help the speaker…
Covered in Something When we want to say that something is covered in or full of something else (e.g. “the bookshelf…
Phrasal Verbs There are many verbs in Japanese formed by thought a combination of two verbs—the equivalent of phrasal verbs…
Changing Nouns to Adjectives: ～的 的てき as a noun means “target” or “objective”; however, this kanji has one particularly useful grammatical usage: by…