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450 tada no / tashikani - ga

tri LL
(e) f:fa)Z 3Pt d:,
(I'm just kidding, you know.)
am

Tada no N is used when the speaker makes nothing out of s.t. I s.0. There-
fore, it can be used as a humble expression as in KS and Ex.(d).

Tada no N is similar in meaning to futsij no N which means 'ordinary N.'
The latter does not carry the former's emotive overtone of 'making nothing
out of s.t. 1s.o.'; it is, rather a neutral term to mean 'not special,' or 'stan-
dard.' So when the emotive overtone is strong (including a case of humble
expression) tada no can hardly be replaced by futsO no, as shown below.
[I] a. 5~12 {tzt:/?i&~ ~wLRT-F~'~;, .t-bazkt;faba*
/Lo (=KS)

tashikani - ga @M'C;--fif stz

indeed - but; certainly - but;
idea "indeed - but" truly - but; it is true that - but;
I admit that - but; definitely -
but
[REL. - koto wa -