04-20-2013, 02:03 PM
Rose Wrote:Ah no, you'll use hiragana and katakana in writing. I had a 'eureka!' moment when talking to a friend, when thinking out loud "but the same word can end different ways to mean different things. Taberu means to eat, Tabereru means Can eat, Tabeta means ate ... so they must use the kanji for the first part, then follow it with the hiragana to determine the meaning, right?" It's exactly that.So do they actually use kanji for the "base" word then add hiragana for the inflections (Google Translated this word, might be wrong)? Like when you ask someone if they understand, you add ka to Wakarimasu?
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