Using が multiple times in one sentence

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If you ask a question, such as 誰がこれが分かる？ Is this still grammatical? Is it okay to use two が's in the same sentence?

It may be grammatical but it is awefully unnatural. Had to say it as no one else has. — , Sep 25 '14 at 01:46

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:43

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Yes, it is grammatically correct. But if you want to avoid multiple がs like this, you can replace the former with に.

誰にこれがわかる？

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:43

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answered Sep 24 '14 at 20:52

istrasci

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Did you mean "the former one"? Also it's not possible to do this for all predicates. – Darius Jahandarie Sep 24 '14 at 21:09
Oops, yes. I'll correct. – istrasci Sep 24 '14 at 22:25
@DariusJahandarie What's an example where it's impossible? – Sep 25 '14 at 03:10
✗誰にこれが好きですか？. And it's not just a syntactic restriction, as this is fine: ○誰にこれが必要ですか？ – Darius Jahandarie Sep 25 '14 at 03:15
Yeah, as Darius says, even if you forcibly interpret it, it only sounds "who do you want to do this to?". If you somehow want to avoid repetition, you may have 誰がこれを, but 誰がこれが is fine. – user4092 Sep 25 '14 at 03:32

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