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04-09-2010, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Sashimister View Post
For "time is relative", you can use both.
For "I don't have time", you can only use 時間.



You cannot say 時をとまれ as とまる is an intransitive verb. Things can とまる, but you cannot とまる anything. 

We say 時とまれ.
Ah, nice to know. I thought it must be wo since I knew wo to be an object marker and didn't know yo had any particular meaning apart from a "new information" marker... I'd seen it written down both ways, and in spoken (and FAST) Japanese they sound very similar, so.. I didn't really know which was the right one. Thanks for clearing it up.

What about toki vs. jikan in this case though?
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