Talk:居る

to have

 * isn't a misinterpretation of the sense given, is it? (currently questioning why I did this, since to me it seems like 彼氏いますか belongs to the first sense) —suzukaze (t・c) 05:47, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * @suzukaze, I think it's fine. The basic construction in Japanese for this kind of thing is basically:
 * に が（ある・いる・おる）
 * ... where the choice of ある・いる・おる depends on 1) the animacy of the subject noun (for ある), and 2) the dialect and social register (for いる or おる).
 * The strict English rendering of this construction would be more like "there is a  by / with / near  ".  "Having" often correlates more strictly to Japanese 飼う for a pet, 持つ for in one's hand, which are restricted semantically in important ways to ownership or physical holding, that kind of thing.
 * HTH, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 17:46, 13 November 2017 (UTC)