The も particle and a peculiar use of it and an Omake question.

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damicore Member
From: Buenos Aires Argentina Registered: 2011-05-08 Posts: 73

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I don't the meaning or the raison d'être behind the use of も at the end of this portion of the sentence:

何のトラブルもない人生を送っていた

I kind of made out the meaning of this sentence to be "...(he) lived a life without troubles" but I can't still quite understand the whole sentence.

I've seen these sort of use of the も particle a lot of times but I've never understood the meaning.

PS: Just another little question, i've read (in manga) sentences in th eform of verb+がいい e.g.: 見るがいい! Could somebody explain it's meaning? Does it mean "you better take a look", "it's ok if you" or has it got any other meaning? Also it does seem to be quite a gramatically wrong way to form the sentence, if it's not I'd like somebody to explain it to me. May be that's the "or" が? It doesn't seem to make much sense that way.

Last edited by damicore (2012 December 02, 6:54 pm)

yudantaiteki Member
Registered: 2009-10-03 Posts: 3619

1. "Question word/phrase + も + negative" is a pattern meaning none/never/no-one, etc.  Here it's 何のトラブル, so "no trouble".

2. 見るがいい means "Look!!"  It's a blunt command form you only see in fictional stuff.  The grammar is based on classical Japanese; it's ungrammatical by modern grammar rules but this is a holdover from older Japanese.

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