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4 Replies ・ Started by odraencoded at 2017-07-04 14:10:59 UTC ・ Last reply by jakobd2 at 2017-07-06 11:25:41 UTC
This is a discussion about 若々しい

WAKA WAKA

Waka waka
Waka waka
Shiiiiiiii......

This is a word. How is this even possible? How did this happen? What does it take for a language to come up with a word that sounds like a pacman pop-idol doing a pose for a photo?

Japanese is too weird.

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Skuller at 2017-07-04 14:38:07 UTC

that what makes the language beautiful tho ;)

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Leebo at 2017-07-04 23:56:42 UTC

Are you asking a serious question or just wanting to make a joke?

The style of word where a sound is repeated and then has しい tacked on to make adjectives is common.

荒々しい
華々しい
仰々しい
ばかばかしい

Doing the same with 若い doesn't seem strange.

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Shurim at 2017-07-06 05:43:09 UTC

ecks

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jakobd2 at 2017-07-06 11:25:41 UTC

Good to know: Adjectives ending in -shii are nowadays just regular i-Adjectives but used to be a special class. (And used to end in -shiku). That's why the し is also never part of the kanji. They mostly describe feelings.

With that in minds it's easy to understand the difference in meaning between just 若い and 若々しい. I don't think it's funny but if the sound of this word motivates you to learn Japanese then more power to you.

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