Sleepy's Japanese Studies

I haven't posted on here for a few months now (and I feel like I've broken some law in doing so), but it's for a good reason, I ...

A word in the て form plus しかたがない or しょうがない literally means that there is a situation occurring with no way to escape it. These are generally...

The expression 何から何まで can be used to mean "all", "anything and everything", or something similar to the English "fr...

A verb stem + っぱなし can be used to express that something keeps happening, or someone keeps doing something, with that action often being som...

The add-on っけ can be used at the end of a sentence as a question marker in very casual situations. If it's used after a non-past verb, a...

The expression と同時に can be used to express that an event takes place at the same time as another event, or that two separate situations are ...

The word かえって can be used in a sentence when a result occurs that is contrary to your expectations. Though it can be translated literally as...