Questions tagged [particle-こと]
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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。
chika
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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, only the nominalizer の but not こと can be used…
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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)?
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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 "the act of using money wastefully" an abstract sort of thing?…
George
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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" and you would use a verb in gerund form like "living there"…
Ruben Oliveira
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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?
J.Treutlein
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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 really track that. Information on こと, any at all, would be…
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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 sleep here and I will get fat", but I don't understand a…
smolpatchy
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