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…
Nothing Else to Do しかない can also be added to the dictionary form of verbs to express that you have no choice…
Expressing Quantities Just (だけ) だけ is the most basic way of expressing “only” or “just”, e.g. I’ll just have one…
Maybe/Possibility: ～かもしれない かもしれない is translatable as “maybe”. It expresses less probability than adding the volitional form of the auxiliary verb…