Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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- ~{かんたん}**~{^じゃ}　~{な\いよ}**
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[^ja-nai]:
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- Even more confusingly, if **じゃない** or **じゃん** are used to affirmate instead of negating, they are considered a postposition as a whole:
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- ~{き\れい}**~{_じゃない}**　~{き\れい}**~{_じゃん}**　~{かんたん}**~{^じゃ\ない}**　~{かんたん}**~{^じゃ\ん}**. This makes it a pitch accent minimal pair:
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+ Even more annoyingly, if **じゃない** is used to affirmate instead of negating (which often contracts to **じゃん**), it is considered a postposition as a whole:
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+ - ~{き\れい}**~{_じゃない}**
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+ - ~{かんたん}**~{^じゃ\ない}**
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+ This makes it a pitch accent minimal pair:
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- ~{かんたん}~{^じゃ\ない} - It's easy
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- ~{かんたん}~{^じゃ}~{な\い} - It's not easy
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