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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Funny enough, the Japanese doesn’t have the word “the” per say. It most depends on context and how you translate it. Example: ねこは赤です -> literal translation: Cat red Now time to add some English words to make it sound ✨better✨ “The cat is red”

[–] muhyb 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're interested, please do crosspost this (and any other linguistics memes you have) over to /c/linguistics_[email protected]

[–] muhyb 4 points 1 year ago

Heh, that's my kind of humor. Will do. :)

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