The Imperative for Honorifics

We met the adverbial noun よう previously when we looked at ways to express similarity in Japanese. Its…

At the moment the only way we have to give an order is to ask politely for someone…

Counters “count” things. English doesn’t have counters. We just say the number to count objects, people, animals, e.g.…

どころか is used to express to the listener that the result was almost the exact opposite from what…