• @[email protected]
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      95 months ago

      Not the worst example for Japanese. The verb kakeru 掛ける is very common and has ~25 different meanings. This is before you count the other verbs also pronounced as kakeru such as 翔ける、賭ける etc

      • Captain Aggravated
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        75 months ago

        How many definitions does the English word “set” have?

        • @Rekonok
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          25 months ago

          C’est une putain de bonne idée pour apprendre ce putain de langage, putain

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        25 months ago

        It can be argued that most of the different meanings arise from different contexts and how the speakers associate that particular word to different uses. When an English speaker uses the word save, it can mean either “save a person from danger”, “save a computer file”, and many others, which can have different meaning-translations to other languages.