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05-24-2008, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by TalnSG View Post
so a silver candlestick would be gin shokudai or ginshokudai?

"Gin" is a noun in Japanese. For the color adjective it becomes "gin no" if something is made of silver. It is "giniro no" when something is not made of silver but is silver-colored.
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