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3 More on らぞ: controlling turns
Have you noticed that your teacher frequently uses らぞ before switching to a new topic, even though no one has asked a question? It is not just teachers who use らぞ this way. Modulators, in particular news anchors and teachers, use らぞ to seek attention. This is because らぞ has a meaning similar to ‘all right’.
1. らぞ\まとら\ゼプΓズよメ【パめび〜 2. らぞ\まと\ゃだへ〜
3. らぞ\めでぱべ〜
All right, next is news from Italy. All right, next person, please. All right, it's done.
らぞ is also used when you respond to someone calling your name (= ‘Here I am!’), or when you hand over something (= ‘Here you go!’).
4 つやひ: ‘same; identical’
つやひ can be said to be a noun or a や-adjective in that it can be followed by めび. But it is slightly exceptional: Unlike regular nouns and や-adjectives which require よ and や,
respectively, it attaches directly to a modified noun. In other respects, it is the same as regular nouns.
1. ねイもぷイらつやひめび〜
This one and that one are the same.
2. ヵΒ【はカもΔゼパはカら\つやひ本オ 買ぞぱべ〜 Ms. Miller and Mr. Lewis bought the same book.
3. ΓΜはカら\つやひぢぞてオ 五ゃ 見ぱべ〜 Ms. Liang watched the same movie twice.
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