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Get your ghetto grammar here! How to say "Ya feel me?" in Japanese.
O.k. so you want to ask your friends if they are 'catching your drift', or if they understand 'where you are coming from.' In Japanese you could say these type of phrases to friends of some acquaintance easily by saying only one word --- wakaru? With an inquisitive rise in inflection, wakaru?, takes on the approximate meaning, 'Can you feel me?' It makes more sense when spoken in plain form and situations where you are quite familiar with your partner in conversation.
Plain form wakaru? vs. polite form wakarimasu ka?. In a polite tone, the friendly and congenial feeling and meaning you get when saying, wakaru, in plain form gets lost when you say 'wakarimasu ka?'. Instead it instantly sounds off, 'do you understand?' Next time you are with your favorite Japanese friend, see how much he/she 'feels' you by asking 'wakaru?'
Can you feel me?
wakaru?
Can you see where I am coming from?
wakaru?
Are you picking up what I'm laying down?
wakaru?
Understand?
wakaru?
In polite form
wakarimasu ka? (do you know?)or
The GAB or Ghetto After Blast -1 point Japanese tip- The verb shiru is similiar in meaning to wakaru and sometimes to westerners the difference will not be readily nor easily distinguished. The verb shiru has more to do with awareness of something rather than a deep knowledge or knowing intrinsically via deep feelings or our ghetto grammar phrase of the day ,'Do you feel me?' The ultimately polite phrase ___go-zonji desu ka? are you honorifically familiar with __? With rikai suru being the verb that denotes
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