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26 Oct 2020
- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
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Why sometimes I see words like this can be shorten? 切り替え -> being written as 切替 instead?
Why sometimes I see words like this can be shorten? 切り替え -> being written as 切替 instead?
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@kareaan
there are lots of similar words.
ex)
受け付け…受付
引っ越し…引越
it's used customarily.
both are used in daily life.
(not in school or examination)
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@chappiee I see. I’m surprised to see the short form. I’ve never seen them in textbooks before!
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@kareaan
yes, I understand.
textbook Japanese is probably basic Japanese.
actually these short form are quite common in shop or company or headline of newspaper...😅
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@chappiee yes I saw it on email and I am wondering is there grammatical mistake 😅 thank you for the explanation!

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