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07-25-2008, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by PouncingAnt View Post
Can you please post in English, so that the rest of us know what you are saying? Regardless of whether the author of a post doesn't speak English as a first language, the question was posted in English, on an English forum dealing in Japanese. If you need further reminder of this, the board announcements are all made in English.

By replying in (what I assume is) Italian, you are only helping people who speak Italian, and any English speakers coming across this problem will likely still have the problem (though I can guess at the answer based on the Japanese you wrote ).

That aside, hats off for being multilingual. I'm struggling with just 2 languages
You are absolutely right and I apologize for that...it is just that being Italian my native language it comes easier to explain something with many technical grammar terminology in it. I will try to translate it, but as I say in the end, I am just guessing.

<<That should be the passive. The verb is USHINA-U and its negative base, since it ends in U, becomes USHINA-WA. Passive for godan is RERU, from here the passive USHINAWARERU. Up to here I can understand it, for the rest I try to deduce it and I think the reason why the RE was taken away was to make an adjective/noun out of it.
But believe more to other people, much more expert than I am.>>
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