Browsing the blog archivesfor the day Saturday, February 20th, 2010

To Bend or Anti-

so-ru, han-suru, han The verb soru means “to bend” or “to arch.” The verb hansuru means “to be against.” The ru of soru and the suru of hansuru are in hiragana. The prefix han means “anti-.” Hankan means antipathy. If you feel it, you can say, “hankan wo idaku.” It literally means to hold antipathy. [...]