Timeline for Interrogative/Counters with か、も、でも, but also with particles
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| Oct 6, 2020 at 5:50 | comment | added | broccoli forest | @DavidX Regardless of question or not, も and でも (along with は, さえ, しか etc.) make the phrase work as (in English grammar terms) sentence adverb, not adjective. They can't modify nouns. か is better deemed as affix (like some- in "somewhere", "somehow") rather than particle after a noun. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 1:18 | comment | added | dvx2718 | So でも is not used the same way as か？何台かの車 would be correct but 何台でもの車 would not be? Thanks for answering; I'm really trying to figure out how all these words falls into place just so I can combine them and say more complicated things. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 1:15 | comment | added | naruto | @DavidX 何台でもの車 is wrong on its own. In other words でも doesn't work as a no-adjective. As you probably know, English prefers using adjectives to express numbers, but Japanese prefers adverb-based expressions. It's hard to translate 'however many cars' on its own. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 1:11 | comment | added | dvx2718 | Thanks, but 何台でもの車 on its own is still wrong? What if I don't want to say 'buy', just the 'however many cars' part? | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 0:47 | history | edited | naruto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2020 at 0:42 | history | answered | naruto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |