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you (referring to someone of equal or lower status); dear (what a wife calls a husband)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

language; dialect; word; words; phrase; term; expression; remark; speech; (manner of) speaking

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

nicely; properly; well; skillfully; skilfully; frequently; often

death