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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (March 09, 2025)

  • March 9, 2025

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  1. Looking for advice on this sentence from a short story. It’s being spoken by a character in the story after just explaining his feeling of being completely alone in the world:

    それはおそらく人間が生きている中で経験するいちばん辛いことのひとつなんだ。

    I recognize the pattern 〜の中でいちばん〜 but I’m not entirely sure why 経験する is in the middle of it. Wouldn’t this be more grammatically accurate?:

    それはおそらく人間が生きている中でいちばん辛い経験することのひとつなんだ。

    The frustrating part is I think my rewritten sentence sounds worse/inaccurate but I can’t pinpoint why

  3. I’m confused on the difference between 「は」and 「が」to indicate subject.

    On one hand it’s said that 「が」just describes the scene without any particular emphasis: 「田中さんがケーキを食べた」

    And that 「は」is used to emphasise the subject: 「(As for Tanaka/shifting the conversation to Tanaka now) 田中さんはケーキを食べた」、「山本さんはアイスクリームを食べたが、田中さんはケーキを食べた」

    But then 「が」in some cases also emphasises the subject. The only consistent examples I can find are when the subject’s identity is unknown. 「誰がケーキを食べた？」「田中さんが食べたんだ」

    So for emphasising the subject, when would I use 「は」over 「が」?

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