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Sexually Dimorphic

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:39 pm


Alright, so, when writing in romaji, I don't know how to write out small tsu, ya, yu, and yo...

With particles, do you write the actual character or the way it's pronounced?
(ie: watashi ha aaron desu. vs. watashi wa aaron desu.)

Is hu really written as fu?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:59 pm


There are different types of romanization..
Most commonly I've seen... Yes, Hu is Fu.
No small characters.. Example "ma[small tsu]ta is "matta".
Is is "wa".

I do not have the ability to write in Japanese on my comuter.. If you want to see the romanizations of more characters though, you can go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana <

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:25 pm


you write how it's pronounced.

Small 'tsu' doubles the following consonent. ッツ っつ

You write it how it is said. Wa, e, etc...

extended vowels you write the vowels (in hiragana you can tell if it's oo, or ou.) If it's the katakana line write out the vowel.  ケーキ keiki

ふ is fu. There is no 'hu'

May I ask if you know kana? The small 'ya, yu, yo' is something you should know when you learn kana. You drop the 'i' in the big letter and add the ya, yu, yo part.

ki+ya= kya
き+や=きゃ
PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:12 pm


Mikagi-sama
Small 'tsu' doubles the following consonent. ッツ っつ
so would 'school' be written 'gakkou'?

Quote:
May I ask if you know kana? The small 'ya, yu, yo' is something you should know when you learn kana. You drop the 'i' in the big letter and add the ya, yu, yo part.

ki+ya= kya
き+や=きゃ
Yes I do, but I was never taught romaji translations... And Thank you for the explination, it made a lot of sence.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:17 am


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Mikagi-sama
Small 'tsu' doubles the following consonent. ッツ っつ
so would 'school' be written 'gakkou'?

Quote:
May I ask if you know kana? The small 'ya, yu, yo' is something you should know when you learn kana. You drop the 'i' in the big letter and add the ya, yu, yo part.

ki+ya= kya
き+や=きゃ
Yes I do, but I was never taught romaji translations... And Thank you for the explination, it made a lot of sence.

Yup! biggrin That's what it would look like.

Oh? Were you taught by voice? I see... sweatdrop sorry, I didn't know.
PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:07 pm


Mikagi-sama
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Mikagi-sama
Small 'tsu' doubles the following consonent. ッツ っつ
so would 'school' be written 'gakkou'?

Quote:
May I ask if you know kana? The small 'ya, yu, yo' is something you should know when you learn kana. You drop the 'i' in the big letter and add the ya, yu, yo part.

ki+ya= kya
き+や=きゃ
Yes I do, but I was never taught romaji translations... And Thank you for the explination, it made a lot of sence.

Yup! biggrin That's what it would look like.

Oh? Were you taught by voice? I see... sweatdrop sorry, I didn't know.
No reason to appologize. It's all good.
Thanks again for the help.

Sexually Dimorphic

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