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What is your preferred grammar source / guide?
I am trying to understand the grammar of the following sentence 「通らなくてはならない道。」
EDIT: Fixed a typo on my sentence. The sentence is the title of the third episode from a J-Drama called Bambino.
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Thanks, I was looking for something more like a grammar resource with explanations and examples for specifics points, in this case something like らなくて maybe, I have no idea how to break the sentence.
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It looks like an error.
らんくて is the て form negative ending of a verb, but I'm not aware of 道 forming such a verb.
Maybe it's an error for 満ちる which ought properly be 満ちなくて or something, can't tell without any context.
(Oh, the answer below mine is a -much- better guess, I like it.)
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It couldn't be 通らなくてならない道, could it? I can only think it must be a typo of some kind...
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I tried googling it and nowt came up...
Tae Kim has a good grammar database but I prefer the dictionaries of Japanese grammar series by Makino and Tsutsui
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Community based, but check out jgram.org
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The second hit on google for なくてはならない contains the following:
なくてはならない 無くてはならない
《人が主語》 cannot do without something
《物が主語》 be indispensable 《to》 be necessary 《to, for》.
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Dictionaries of Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Grammar
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However, none of these resources will help you parse things you don't know. That's one of the reasons it's so hard to skip a structured introduction to the grammar. Unless someone explains it to you or you see it beforehand in a book, you're never going to be able to figure out that 通らなくてはならない道 is 通る in negative -te form plus ならない, which is a special grammar point, modifying 道.