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In Japanese, living things

In Japanese, living things use a different "to be" verb ("いる") than inanimate objects ("ある"). So a cat, were it not to be there, would need "いない" rather than "ない”

Posted by Anonymous on Jul 10th, 2010 at 1:21 am.

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