March 02, 2012

Japanese Revelations {Tell everything 洗いざらい言う}

This is gonna be a really short post, but a post nonetheless.
So.
Japanese has MANY words for 'everything'. Some are adverbs (not even sure how that even works, but Rikaichan says they are, so it must be true), some are nouns, and I've never been able to tell if 全て(すべて) is a noun or a verb ending in ~て.

Either way, one way to say everything is with 洗いざらい(あらいざらい).
It can only be used (or at least as far as I know) with 言う. When put in front of 言う, it means that [someone] told everything [that had never been told to someone else]. Maybe like something you just realized, and it was long, so it had to include the word 'everything', and you hadn't told it to anyone else yet. Or maybe a secret of your's. I don't know any other examples/situations that I can think of to use with this.

Sorry this is so short, but enjoy anyways! ^^

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