Re: Plurals via reduplication in Japanese (was Re: Adopting a plural)
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 8, 2004, 20:25 |
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:25:45 -0400, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
>Aren't there also some small number of plural nouns in Japanese formed by
>reduplication?
I don't think so. The only instance I know where reduplication is actually
used is not for plural, but for representing sounds, e.g. "dokidoki" to
present the sound of heart beating. Probably it was a list of these sound
words you remember, there's a good amount of them.
Other than that, "moshomoshi" is generally used when answering the telephone.
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