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Other uses for か besides asking a question

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Other uses for か besides asking a question

Postby kanjistream_505991 » May 23rd, 2015 1:12 am

I can't wrap my head around this sentence, particularly the underlined part.

しかし、火事になったとき何人泊まっていたわからないため、逃げるのが遅れた人がほかにもいないかどうか確かめています。

It's not asking a question, that much I can tell. I want to lean on it saying "whether", like in the explaination here -
http://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/ka-dou-ka.html

- but it only uses "かどうか” as a primary example.

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Re: Other uses for か besides asking a question

Postby Murius » May 23rd, 2015 7:08 am

Here wikipedia is your friend :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_particles#ka

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Re: Other uses for か besides asking a question

Postby community.japanese » May 24th, 2015 11:10 am

Murius san,
Thank you for helping san.

san,
The sentence is same as 火事になったとき何人泊まっていたかどうかわからないため.
Is it clear?
If you need more explanation, please feel free ask us.

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