Supposing I wanted to say "I see the fireworks at the summer festival". Would this be:
夏{なつ}祭{まつ}りで花{はな}火{び}を見{み}ます。
or
夏祭りに花火を見ます。
If both are correct, how does the meaning differ between each?
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Yes, both are correct.
The differences are:
- 夏祭りに花火を見ます This is a regular phrase for "I'll watch the fireworks at the summer festival."
- 夏祭りで花火を見ます This would stress at. It has a nuance that "I have many chances to watch the fireworks but I will watch them at the summer festival."
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Both are correct, but my reasoning will differ from @S.Wakisaka's.
「夏祭りで花火を見る」 treats the summer festival as a spatial point (location) for watching fireworks.
「夏祭りに花火を見る」 treats the summer festival as a temporal point (timing) for watching fireworks.
Starting around 0:25 in the video below, hear this singer say 「秋祭{あきまつ}りに買{か}った指輪{ゆびわ}、小指{こゆび}にしています」.
answered Mar 26 '17 at 5:42
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This explanation is very interesting and very true, although 祭り is a word that specifies time and place, but 休み only does time. It's worth to know. 〜に & 〜で these postpositional particles have many variations of usages. I guess, the question implies the difference of ベッドで寝る and ベッドに寝る, this example is clear to lead my answer. – user20428 Mar 26 '17 at 6:37
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3^ The 休み was clearly just a typo, you know... It's been corrected. And, the difference of に and で in ベッドに寝る/ベッドで寝る is quite different from that of に and で in 秋祭りに見る/秋祭りで見る. You'd say 秋祭りに見た as a response to "When did you see~~?" and 秋祭りで見た to "Where did you see ~~?", no? – Chocolate♦ Mar 26 '17 at 15:40
