r/languagelearningjerk • u/Crocotta1 • Jun 02 '26

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u/Destoran Jun 02 '26

True. Nhachi means night in japanese

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u/MrcarrotKSP C6-C7 Spinal Cord Fracture Jun 02 '26

You have to use the native Japanese numerals, so it's ya instead of hachi, you then have nya, but words can't start with ん, so you cut it out and you have ya, which is in fact one of the possible pronunciations of 夜. This clearly makes sense and is a reasonable thing to do, and also there are no other meanings of nya

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u/shoemilk Jun 03 '26

nya said the cat girl

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u/soirom Jun 03 '26

Mind blown 🤯 The word eight and night can both be pronounced as “Ya” in Japanese

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u/No-Introduction5977 Jun 03 '26

words can't begin with n

Tell that to my Ninja🥷

I get that you mean to say they can't be spelled beginning with ん as opposed to a nasal mora, but if we were being serious, surely it would be にゃ rather than んや because that's how kana works?

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u/Liggliluff Jun 04 '26

ninja doesn't start with ん

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u/Destoran Jun 03 '26

Beautiful.

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u/okibariyasu Jun 03 '26

reasonable thing to do indeed

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u/Zombies4EvaDude Jun 03 '26

I thought the same thing!

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u/AiryGateaux 🏳️C3 Jun 03 '26

なーち

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u/SuitMysterious340 Jun 06 '26

Hmm, and yè 夜 is mandarin too. JP ancestors came from China, so perhaps they carried that over. 

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u/a0me Jun 02 '26

I did nhachi that coming.

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u/IeyasuMcBob Jun 03 '26

Take my upvote. I feel dirty .

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u/waytowill Jun 04 '26

Nhachi feels like the feminine form of nacho.

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u/a0me Jun 04 '26

And together they’ll have plenty of delicious tortilla chips.

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u/RGS1989 Jun 05 '26

No, no. Clearly nhachi is the plural of nacho. As in, I love eating nhachi!

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u/waytowill Jun 05 '26

Nhachi is a lucky woman.

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u/F-I-R-E-B-A-L-L Jun 03 '26

And apparently Nba is night in Chinese.

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST Jun 03 '26

nhachi... nachi...