• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    *there is other city. Singular.

    Supposedly there is a third city, but it’s too boring to be worth checking.

        • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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          18 hours ago

          Please explain how that’s wrong?

          Japanese nouns don’t have grammatical number. The closest you can get is adding an affix like -tachi, but even then it’s almost exclusively for people and means more like “and company” rather than a true plural.

          The noun for “city” is 市 (“ichi”), and it can mean either one city, two cities, or many cities. You can specify how many by adding a number, but the word itself doesn’t change.