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03-04-2010, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkSinergy View Post
For teaching myself Japanese, I'm using the Genki textbooks (which are quite wonderful, btw), but there are some times where the examples don't quite help out as much as I would like them to.

So, instead of using から for one reason of something happening, we've now gone to し for saying that there are multiple reasons.

But... I fail to understand how a verb conjugates for this, or how adjectives do as well. I'm trying to go with the examples and the practice, but no matter how long (or intensely) I stare at it, it's not sinking in.

Help, please? D:
Hi. I may be too old or something but I (a Japanese speaker) am having a hard time figuring out what kind of し you're speaking of that has to do telling "reasons".

Could you give us an example?
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