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I'm watching to Totoro and there is a line **おばけやしきみたい**. The translation
says, "It's like a haunted house." I understand that おばけ や could be roughly
"relating to monsters" and the dictionary thinks that しきみたい might be a
conjugation of shiku (to spread out, lay). I can't find a conjugation that
would produce しきみたい.
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grammar translation conjugations
What does しきみたい in おばけやしきみたい mean?
> (おばけやしき)(みたい)

You're splitting it in the wrong place. おばけやしき means "haunted house". みたい is a
suffix that means "-like".

You can break down おばけやしき further into おばけ = ghost and やしき = residence.
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