Timeline for Overall syntax of this sentence
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| Jul 3, 2017 at 17:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackJapanese/status/881933646910939136 | ||
| Jul 3, 2017 at 15:22 | comment | added | Yuuichi Tam | I think この公園は綺麗で大きくないです means "This park is beautiful and not big.", 綺麗で is a continuous form of 綺麗だ. If you want to say "This park is beautiful but not big.", you can use だが, だけど like この公園は綺麗だけど大きくないです. | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 15:09 | history | edited | chocolate♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 3, 2017 at 13:51 | vote | accept | Narktor | ||
| Jul 3, 2017 at 13:15 | comment | added | Philippe | @Narktor: "...綺麗で大きくない..." is" beautiful, but not big", and yes, your interpretation of the sentence in your OP is correct. The distinction your yourself identified between the topic and the subject is key here. It is a very compact way of saying: "Let me tell you about the room. It only has a shower, but no bath." | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 9:36 | comment | added | Narktor | I just wonder now: If multiple elements are chained by the continuative form, how is it determined wether these elements are negated or affirmed? Here's a small example: この公園は綺麗で大きくないです。 "This park is beautiful and (but?) not big." Is this sentence even grammatical? Or would this require other constructions? Is my translation of the sentence of my OP correct? Because this is kind of the reason for my follow up question now, since I don't know wether what I translated can be expressed through such constructions or not.^^ | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 9:35 | answer | added | naruto | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 9:27 | comment | added | Narktor | Thanks! My textbook never explained to me that で can be continuative form of だ. This should be the case in context of な adjective + で as well right? My textbook only taught me that this is the continuative form な adjective, but not that this で is the conjugated, continuative form of だ. Thanks again! | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 9:17 | comment | added | user4032 | How could that be a particle? Highly related : japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/24917/… | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 9:08 | history | asked | Narktor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |