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Ben Finney

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Jun 18, 2009, 10:56:42 PM6/18/09
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mirror <mai...@127.0.0.1> writes:

> How do I use "nani nani" (such and such)?

The word just means “what”.

How have you seen/heard it used before? Which particular usage are you
curious about?

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Sean

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Jun 19, 2009, 2:19:24 AM6/19/09
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Ben Finney wrote:
> mirror <mai...@127.0.0.1> writes:
>
>> How do I use "nani nani" (such and such)?
>
> The word just means “what”.
>
> How have you seen/heard it used before? Which particular usage are you
> curious about?
>

Mirror may have heard it used as "blah blah," or "such and such" a kind
of filler, such as might happen in an example sentence.

To say you "want to eat such and such," say, "nani nani o tabetai."

Bungo

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Jun 19, 2009, 4:45:39 AM6/19/09
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On Jun 19, 6:35 am, mirror <mai...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> Hello,

>
> How do I use "nani nani" (such and such)?
>
> If I could get a few simple sample sentences or fragments and
> comments on its usage, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Paul
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OK, I may be of some fruther help to you in addition to Ben's and
Sean's good instructions.

After you've acquired the 'nani nani', you should also try to gather
the similar expressions in one bundle as follows;

nani nani
dare dare
doko koko
kore kore
shika jika

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B. Ito

chance

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Jun 19, 2009, 7:43:16 AM6/19/09
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"mirror" <mai...@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:bmcl35hu6disctj8a...@4ax.com...

> Hello,
>
> How do I use "nani nani" (such and such)?

Limiting the sense of 'nani nani' to 'such and such',
you can say, ’第一条何何、第二条何何’、
「Article one, blah blah, Article two blah blah]

Or you can say in the same sense as above,

’某某を殺したと言っているではないか’、

「Isn't it said that he has killed so and so?]


All above according to an online dictionary,
'Daijisen'.

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Bart Mathias

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Jun 19, 2009, 9:53:21 PM6/19/09
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Bungo wrote:
> On Jun 19, 6:35 am, mirror <mai...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> How do I use "nani nani" (such and such)?
>>
>> If I could get a few simple sample sentences or fragments and
>> comments on its usage, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Paul
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> OK, I may be of some fruther help to you in addition to Ben's and
> Sean's good instructions.
>
> After you've acquired the 'nani nani', you should also try to gather
> the similar expressions in one bundle as follows;
>
> nani nani
> dare dare
> doko koko

Und auch dokosoko, aber nicht dokoasoko, ich denke.

> kore kore

dorekore, doresore, arekore, unnun?

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