Yep, you're right. My apologies. It has been about 25 years since I actively studied or spoke Japanese, and I was typing on my phone. My explanation was trying

Yep, you're right. My apologies. It has been about 25 years since I actively studied or spoke Japanese, and I was typing on my phone. My explanation was trying for "understandable" but may have veered into "problematically over-simplified," not to mention insufficiently copy-edited.