Timeline for How often and where usually is ずとも encountered?
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| Jul 22, 2020 at 4:14 | vote | accept | rebuuilt | ||
| Jul 22, 2020 at 3:54 | comment | added | naruto | @rebuuilt It's widely used in written language. In speech, samurai and ninja are indeed typical users of this, but noble or arrogant characters in sci-fi works can use it naturally, too. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 3:25 | comment | added | rebuuilt | @naruto When would one use this kind of "literary" construction? Would a scifi novel use this? Or maybe a historical novel? | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 2:31 | comment | added | naruto | ずとも is perhaps "literary" rather than "formal". | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 22:28 | comment | added | rebuuilt | I guess so, something like a good-to-know grammar point. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 22:21 | comment | added | kandyman | I can't honestly remember encountering it. The old negative form ず isn't that common these days and has mostly been replaced with standard ない forms. Maybe that's why you don't see it much. It's probably one of those things which you have to study for a test but rarely see in real life. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 22:18 | comment | added | rebuuilt | 毎日のんびり日本語教師 is one of my favorite sites, thank you. Thank you also for the initiative of checking the corpus. I'm just wondering, with ずとも showing up 20x less frequenty than なくても, have you encountered ずとも in real life? | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 19:31 | history | edited | kandyman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2020 at 18:54 | history | answered | kandyman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |