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Tae Kim Sentence Translation Problem. - callmedodge - 2012-05-17
I can`t find anything anywhere on this so I`m sorry if this is in the wrong place.
I`m having trouble with this sentence:
お酒はす好というか、ないと生きていけない.
I understand the point that Tae Kim is trying to explain with the というか, but the 「ないと生きていけない」I just don`t get at all.
I know「...てはいけない」basically "Do not ..." but there is no は in the sentence above. I thought it might be a conjugation of いる but it`s not that. If it was a case of "being unable to live without" would 「ないと生きられない」not do?
I cannot find any other examples of いけない being used with the は particle so I`m a little stumped.
Any help would be great.
Tae Kim Sentence Translation Problem. - blackhack - 2012-05-17
The structure being used is て-form＋いく.
生きていく means "go on living". 生きていけない means "can't go on living".
Tae Kim Sentence Translation Problem. - callmedodge - 2012-05-17
Ah. Of course. Thank you!