• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sorry to pick nits, but if the definition is “to pour something over something else,” that’s a verb.

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      3 months ago

      ぶっ掛け (bukkake) is a noun, like “a splash of coffee.”

      ぶっ掛ける (bukkakeru) is a verb, like “I like to splash around.”

      Granted, bukkake isn’t that kind of splash, it’s rather “they splashed water on the flames.”

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Not quite the same, although interesting!

          In this case, “Bukkake” is a noun in both English and Japanese. “Bukkakeru” with the “ru” on the end is the verb form that the noun comes from. English didn’t change it, the picking of nits above just wasn’t quite correct.

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            3 months ago

            Technically the other poster’s definition of bukkake was what was not quite correct, the nits I picked were based on that.

            • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              Haha fair enough. It’s kind of hard to define a nominalized verb in English, I feel, so I’d give it to him, but you’re free to pick all the nits 😂