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  • March 23, 2014 at 5:53 am #44548

    tVAK
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    I have a question about じゃありません
    is it jya-arimasen or ja-arimasen
    thanks in advance ^_^

    March 23, 2014 at 7:35 am #44550

    Benjamin
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    I always believed you pronounced it as “Jya-arimasen”

    March 23, 2014 at 10:23 am #44553

    Cimmik
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    The way I think of is that し and じ are a little bit different when it comes to ゃ, ゅ and ょ.
    I think
    しゃ = sha
    しゅ = shu
    しょ = sho
    じゃ = ja
    じゅ = ju
    じょ = jo

    This is also the way I type it. It doesn’t give me problems, and to me it doesn’t really sounds like it’s wrong.
    So in romanji I would say “jaarimasen”

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    March 23, 2014 at 10:52 am #44555

    tVAK
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    thanks for the replys you two
    to be honest there simaler enough that it sounds the same when you say it anyway it just had me confused about the way you type it as the worksheet was called jaarimasen not jyaarimasen

    • This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by  tVAK.
    March 23, 2014 at 12:13 pm #44557

    Joel
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    You will see it written as “jya” around the place, but that a different romanisation, not a different pronunciation – it’s written as “jya” to fit the pattern of “kya” and “hya”, but there’s a reason that most people romanise it as “ja” instead.

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