Example:
両親が一人で日本に行かせてくれた
My parents let me go to Japan alone
And
両親に一人で日本に行かせてもらった
My parents let me go [after me asking] to Japan alone
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it’s 両親が...くれた and 両親に...もらった. – A.Ellett Sep 9 '20 at 23:35
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1what i meant by that comment was that 両親 gets parsed with the verbs くれる/もらう and not the verb in the causative, いかせて. though really they both go hand in hand however the grammar of が vs に is driven by the verb of giving or receiving expressed, not the causative. – A.Ellett Sep 9 '20 at 23:41
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I think you need to step back a little and first learn the basics of that grammar くれる/もらう and then start adding it to てform, causatives, and so on. – Felipe Chaves de Oliveira Sep 10 '20 at 1:54
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くれる basically means "to give", and もらう basically means "to receive". Let's think about this with simpler examples:
- 両親が私に本をくれた。
My parents gave a book to me. - 私は両親に本をもらった。
(= 私は両親から本をもらった。)
I received a book from my parents.
In the former, the subject is 両親, and in the latter, the subject is 私. Both has に, but these two に play different roles. When you use もらう, the に-marked argument marks the giver. This is a basic rule of how もらう works.
Now, if we replace 本を with 一人で日本に行かせて, we get these:
- 両親が(私に)一人で日本に行かせてくれた。
- (私は)両親に一人で日本に行かせてもらった。
(両親から no longer works because no physical object is transferred.)
These are the sentences you are asking about. In the latter, you can see the に-marked argument still marks the giver (of favor).
