Okay maybe the title is overstating it a bit, but I might cry the next time I have to struggle with whether to pick なくてはいけない、なくてはならない、なければならない、or なければいけない
“could you make that more formal? okay now make it more casual!”
Bro I’m gonna cry.
Are there any combos anyone else struggles with?
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What I’ve been doing is to try all 4 of them.
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文法を復習しなければいけない
文法を復習しなければならない
文法を復習しなくてはいけない
文法を復習しなくてはならない
文法を復習しないといけない
文法を復習しないとならない
文法を復習しなきゃ
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I feel ya, I’ve explained to my friends before how I feel like I’ll have to go get a prescription for hypertension meds to get through Bunpro reviews because of those exact grammar points.
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Can you say it another way? 
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文法を復習しないとだめ！
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Can you say it another way? 
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文法を復習しなくちゃ！
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Can you say it another way? 
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このウサギがめっちゃ美味しそう
E: you removed that like very quickly…
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Oops, looks like I left my broken record on repeat over here on this thread …
Luckily, watching from a safe distance 
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N.B. there are some great-sounding rabbit dishes in chapter 7 of this deck:
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No no no, that’s Pure Evil 
Now that causes visceral rage
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Let’s try an expression that is more often used in conversation
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Thought it was just me having a skill issue
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My main problem is usually similar words/phrases. But this one always makes me grumpy.
“Notable or Unremarkable” So… everything?
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you are not alone.
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Still waiting for the day a Japanese person asks me if I can say something another way in real life. That’s when I’ll actually keel over. 
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Just be bad at Japanese then it happens automatically. I speak from experience.
It happened a few times that people were like “I don’t get it” and I had to try and say it differently, hoping it would then convey the message.
the worst example was when I first tried using Verb[volitional]とする (JLPT N3) | Bunpro IRL, but it didn’t get the message across at all. Then I retried with てみる (JLPT N4) | Bunpro
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