What would one use for the equivalent of the "inter-" and "intra-" prefixes in English?
e.g. intercity, intracity, inter-server etc
I did a fair amount of looking around. 間 looks like it might be usable for some of the inter- words and 内 for a fare few of the intra- (intramural soccer = 校内サッカーリーグor学内サッカーリーグ?)but I was hoping there would be something more consistent.
Answer
You can translate inter- and intra- to ~間 and ~内 respectively.
(Note that they become suffixes rather than prefixes in Japanese.)
References:
- I read dainichi's comments above;
- I found this answer on ye olde Bag o' Wisdom;
- I looked for patterns in the inter- and intra- words in my Kenkyusha J-E dictionary; and
- I briefly checked Google to see if the patterns seemed correct.
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