Questions tagged [particle-こと]
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Use adjective or adverb for clause + こと
As I understand it, when you make a clause and then put こと at the end of it everything is transformed into a noun (e.g. 食べましたこと is eaten thing.) If it's a noun, it should be modified by an adjective, ...
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noun + の + verb + こと VS noun + を + verb + こと
I was just wondering if the following sentence was correct:
日本語の話すこと
It doesn't sound wrong to me, as the whole「話すこと」part becomes a noun, but I'm not quite sure.
I think the more standard way to say ...
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What is the use of this ってこともある, oddly placed 大半 and ってことか in this conversation?
These 3 sentences are excerpts from Season 1, Episode 2 of Classroom of the Elite.
Context: 堀北 and 綾小路 are talking to one another about their classmates, during swimming class at school. 堀北 doesn't ...
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Why is もの used in 「無駄に使ってしまうもの」 (instead of こと)? [duplicate]
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お金というものはあったらあったで無駄に使ってしまうものだ。
Money is something that when you have it, you end up wasting it.
the phrase 「無駄に使ってしまう」 ("used towards waste!") is used to modify もの。
Question: Isn't "...
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Difference between ことが and ことは
What is the difference in the meanings of the following sentences when 事がある is replaced with 事はある?
週末はたいてい家で休んでいるがたまに公園に行く事がある。
週末はたいてい家で休んでいるがたまに公園に行く事はある。
I could find the grammar form ことがある in ...
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How and when to use こと
I have seen こと used in many sentences, but I'm not really sure what it is actually doing. I may have seen something that implies it means "thing", but sometimes the sentence it's in doesn't ...
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Ending a sentence in ～てないでこと
This is from an anime (Kanon ep 1, 07:58). Yuichi says:
いや お前って 変わってないよなあ
Which I understand to mean "you really haven't changed." I believe the first って is replacing は and 変わってない is short ...
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Why is こと used at the end of this kind of sentences?
So, often I see こと being used at the end of sentences like
「私の最後の希望はあなたと共に死ねることなのに」
「それは僕の生命を吸い取るために 僕の全身を凍らせていないことだ」
Is this like how in English you normally would say "My aim is ーーー" ...
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What does こと mean after a conjugated verb?
I don't understand what こと means in this sentence:
こんな 恐ろしい 事 は 聞いた こと が ない。
I initially thought it was a nominalizer, but nominalizers must be used with verbs at the neutral form, and also, ...
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Nominalization and conjugated form
As far as I understood, the nominalization is made with the neutral form of the verb followed by の or こと, as in the example
私は読むことが好きです。I like to read.
Though, I found this example where the verb is ...
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Dummy noun, to add or not to add
Most of the time (?) a following dummy noun is required when the speaker wants to put a 用言 where a 体言 is expected, as shown by the sentence below:
できないのをできないというのに、不思議があるもんか。
However, it seems that ...
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How do I connect verbs with nominalisation?
For example:
I like dancing and singing.
My hobby is studying Japanese and playing guitar.
How do I connect "studying and playing"?
Do I have to use te form? I'm really confused 😃
upd. ...
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Trouble with the compossed verbs
I saw this phrase:
描いていた忘れていたこと
Can there be a sentence or phrase with two verbs in progressive past state?
What does this phrase mean?
Which type of nuance provides こと to the verb?
This phrase ...
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と usage with いる and the っちゃう ending on a verb
total Japanese noob here. Recently I got the manga しろくまカフェ and I started working through it.
Within the first few sentences I'm stumped:
でも寝てばっかりいる太っちゃう〜
I got the gist of the sentence "Just ...
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Question about the usage of もの and こと in Shinkanzen Master N2 Grammar
This question is from one of the practice tests in the Shikanzen Master N2 Grammar.
あの人が( ) 。遊んでばかりですよ。
a) まじめなことですか
b) まじめなものですか
c) まじめなはずですか
d) まじめというものですか
I answered c as my thought process was ...
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Verb + ことが○○です vs verb + 〇〇です
What is the difference between Verb + ことが○○です and verb + 〇〇です? And when are you supposed to use one over the other?
For example I wrote
映画を観ることが時間です。
It's time to watch a movie.
But I was corrected ...
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Using 「という」to describe things
I was learning about how we can use 「という」to describe things and I saw the following example:
日本人{にほんじん}はお酒{さけ}に弱{よわ}いというのは本当{ほんとう}？
And my question is, what is the use of 「という」when used to describe ...
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Use of こと in this dictionary entry
I was looking up the word "出席" (attendance) in a Japanese dictionary, and found the following definition:
学校の授業や会合などに出ること。
From my understanding, I assume こと is added as a normalizer is so ...
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Conjugation with こと and もの
In my textbook, I did an exercise with the following sentences, where you must conjugate the verb in parentheses and put it on the underline (below is the translation I think matches the original ...
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Why does she use こと at the end? [duplicate]
今は、依頼人を助けるための「情報」を聞き逃さないこと。
I understand the sentence but I don't know why she uses こと at the end.
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What's the grammatical function of こと in this sentence?
電車の中などで見る最近の若い者の態度の悪いこと、全く不愉快極まる。
I believe 全く不愉快極まる is the predicate and the rest before the comma is the subject, but I don't understand how the two parts are connected by こと. Could you help me ...
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Why is こと used in 「私に何かできること」？
How does it turn this into a noun clause? All I get from it is “I can do something” but I don’t see where こと fits in.
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How to translate nominalised adjectives from Japanese to English (e.g. スイスがきれいなこと)
I am currently struggling with wrapping my head around こと and how it nominalises adjectives/sentences with adjectives to turn them into noun phrases.
With verbs, it's easy:
べんとうを食べる (I eat bento/...
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Is this a correct use of 〜ことになる?
Does this make sense and what does it mean?
そのあとで、日本語がとくいだことになったと思います。
Does this translate to: After that I think I became good at Japanese?
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What does こと mean?
Please don't laugh at me.
I am super new to Japanese and only really have google translate to help me. I can find a lot of stuff online but I can't find a solid meaning for こと, and Google translate ...
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こと (Must Do) Confusion
I often see こと used when listing rules:
冷蔵庫の物は勝手に食べないこと→ Don’t eat my things from the fridge
トイレ掃除は毎日交代ですること→ Clean the bathroom every day by turns
The above examples come from a written list of ...
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Question about "したことのないことばかり"
I came across the dialog and was puzzling over the sentence
"したことのないことばかり"
（中野さんと大和さんがおみあいをしています。）
中野：大和さんは、お休みの日はなにをされていますか。
大和：ゴルフをしたり美術館を見学したりして、それに絵を書いたり裁縫したりするのです。
中野：わあ、すごいですね。
大和：...
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The nuance of "こと" in "まもなく雪が降ってくることでしょう"
As mentioned in the title, I want to ask the nuance of "こと" in this sentence：
まもなく雪が降ってくることでしょう。
and the possible conditions or reasons that people won't just simply put it as:
まもなく雪が降ってくるでしょう。
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Is this sentence referring to an individual or a group of people?
それでもあいつが絶対的[窮地]{きゅうち}に立ったら迷わず[助太刀]{すけだち}に入る事
I know it says something like "If he gets into a really dangerous situation, I'll/We'll be at his side in a second!"
My question is, would a more correct ...
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こと as an Imperative
I just came across the grammar being metioned here http://japanesetest4you.com/flashcard/learn-jlpt-n3-grammar-%e3%81%93%e3%81%a8-koto/.
It states yet another way to form the imperative.
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What do I do when I encounter "Written Japanese"?
I have read in grammar dictionaries some words/phrases that are labelled as "Written Japanese" and should not be used in normal speech.
Let's take for example the sentence-ending こと ...
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