Kuroro Wrote:夏休みに書いたレポートを先生に見せてから、もう一度よく読んだ


But the sentence makes more sense to me if I think of it as B since A with a nuance of causality 'Since I will show my teacher the essay I wrote during the summer holidays, I read it carefully once again'

Kuroro Wrote:Can anybody help me out with this sentence?

何か手伝うことがないかと思って。

I don't get it at all, I've always seen the ことがある used after the past tense to indicate a previous experience but what does it mean when it comes after the dictionary form?

kapalama Wrote:One way of grabbing a hold of koto is to recognize that in English we have the ability to turn verbs into nouns a variety of ways. "Swimming" can just be use as a noun, as can "to swim". Sometimes we turn nouns into verbs, and sometimes verbs into nouns, with no change at all to the word (except to add 'd' to the end to make it passive or past tense, if that.)

In Japanese, without that flexibility, because verbs have to be able to carry so much more information in the verb, something always has to be added to a verb to make it usable as a noun in Japanese. The usual suspects are こと or just simply の.

およぐのやめたの is one of those ungrammatical things native speakers use all the time.

And it is complicated by the fact that the pluperfect/past perfect is regularly used in English in main verb of a simple sentence, and Japanese can be seen as only denoting completed/non-completed actions, and has to express past perfect/present perfect through the use of dependent clauses.

In English, we can say "I have (never) been to Japan" expressing with no dependent clauses, while Japanese uses the dependent clause of (completed verb+koto), and then says/asks whether that completed thing is something we have.

sparky14 Wrote:Hey everyone, I'm having trouble with a definition for 【幻】

実体がないのにあるかのように見えるもの

the ように and のに are throwing me off. I know that のに means despite and ように can be used to mean "similar too", but I can''t connect the dots...

Is it saying something along the lines of something that exists and can be seen despite not actually being there?

Thanks

kapalama Wrote:(As a side note, that seemed a pretty rare usage for 宿る, especially when written so close to 額, which had me thinking price, not forehead, because I deal with hotels all the time. But internet research says that there is a reason they used that construction. Don't search for it or you will get spoilers methinks.)

drdunlap Wrote:

kapalama Wrote:(As a side note, that seemed a pretty rare usage for 宿る, especially when written so close to 額, which had me thinking price, not forehead, because I deal with hotels all the time. But internet research says that there is a reason they used that construction. Don't search for it or you will get spoilers methinks.)

But why would you stay in the price? 8)

kapalama Wrote:

drdunlap Wrote:

kapalama Wrote:(As a side note, that seemed a pretty rare usage for 宿る, especially when written so close to 額, which had me thinking price, not forehead, because I deal with hotels all the time. But internet research says that there is a reason they used that construction. Don't search for it or you will get spoilers methinks.)

But why would you stay in the price? 8)

Why would I stay in a forehead?

yudantaiteki Wrote:宿る is used also for spirit possession (an old usage -- the Koujien gives 亡き魂や宿りて見給ふらむ from the Genji). I think that's closest to the usage from Ratatosk above.