Like everything else in Japanese, it depends on the context. Unfortunately, there is no simple one-size-fits-all answer to your question.こんばんわ。。。lil' help? what is the word for 'because' and grammatically how do you use it?
please give examples in both romaji also please
どうもありがとう in advance!
what about だって ？That was actually the first word I tought of..
ええ？！ Are you thinking about this too much, Bucko ?There's no real solid "because" word in Japanese. However they say something like "if you ask why" to express "because". There are quite a few ways to say "if you ask why" in Japanese. Here are a few:
ええ？！ Are you thinking about this too much, Bucko ?
The easiest two for the way we might use it in English are ので、（だ）から。
Look in any 英和 dictionary under "because" and ので、から are going to be in the first two or three listings....And a Japanese translator was the one who explained to me about the whole "if you ask why" meaning.
Not in my dictionary. The first that come up are:Look in any 英和 dictionary under "because" and ので、から are going to be in the first two or three listings....
Well, then is it a dictionary of British or Australian English ? If not, check the results under から、ので、Not in my dictionary. The first that come up are:
なぜなれば・・・だから
そのわけは・・・だから
というのは・・・
もの
I actually answered his question by looking in my dictionary first to see what came up.
Well, then is it a dictionary of British or Australian English ? If not, check the results under から、ので、
Those are ones I and most Japanese use and see those everyday, same with ため、very rarely as formal as なぜなれば。 Particularly for a highly beginner's question like what we're trying to get back with here....
I checked it in Jim Breen and there was that (uk) designation, which made me wonder if that was from where it was submitted or something else. BrEng dictionaries could be a whole lot more high-falutin' for all that I'm aware....Haha. Poor Harun must be freaking out. All he wanted was a lil' help
By the way, you've mentioned the whole British/American English thing before, but you realise British and American English is pretty much exactly the same. Except for the odd spelling change here and there they're pretty much identical. There was a study done once where students had to read a paper and identify where the author was from based on the way he wrote (the spelling was adjusted I assume), and no one was able to guess.
Sorry to ask this, but is that は pronounced "は" or "わ"そのわけは (lit. the reason for that)
Sorry to ask this, but is that は pronounced "は" or "わ"
D'oh, should recognized that. *sigh* back to the beginning of the textIt's the subject (or topic??) marker 'wa'.
（という）のは as "because" or "the reason for" is basically standing for （という）理由(reason) は。if that helps at all....D'oh, should recognized that. *sigh* back to the beginning of the text
That helps, just need to remember to review the basics every now and then（という）のは as "because" or "the reason for" is basically standing for （という）理由(reason) は。if that helps at all....