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from an anime:
そう。 もうすぐ始まる野外演習で➡ 君には運営側に回ってほしい。
he’s asking the mc to join the “management side” ( cause she’s really strong ) , but why is he using the verb 回って ? is it like “to turn” as in to switch side? the MC is a student in the academy.
I don’t understand why the causative is used in this sentence.
Context: someone is casting magic on him, which is causing the 煙.
魔法を受けたデュラハンは、光を浴びた部分から、黒い煙を吹き上げ**させて**いる。
I tried thinking of it this way: The subject should be デュラハンは, even though he’s receiving the magic I don’t see any other possible targets.
Then if he’s the subject he’s also the one causing the 吹き上げさせて… So either let/make.
I still can’t see it very well even with that.
Is there any chance the subject is the person using magic on him instead, and not the は particle?
1だそうです,
2と言っていました
3 言いました
my homework was multiple choice to fill in the blank. apparently there were two right answers, one wrong answer. i cannot find out why
the homework went something like this.
あの場所は居酒屋ある＿＿＿＿＿＿。
the answer should be 1 and 2. not 3. i chose 3 (適当に）
any opinion on what the correct answer is and why? my conversation skills have glitched because of this question. i dont know what the rules are, and i dont know how to apply them.
Why is it がくせい but written as gakusee? From Genki I
https://imgur.com/ZN3Xfmr
Is there a list somewhere of all the cases of the kanas being used for something other than their sound? like つ
I was reading a level 1 book on たどく and the following sentence came up: https://imgur.com/FrNNARy
My translation would be something like: “What kind of person does happiness come to?”. The part that I don’t understand is why is the last part written as 来るのでしょうか instead of straight up 来る? or something similar. Not sure what でしょうか adds here. I am still going over essential grammar and only know about 300 vocab. Thanks in advance
edit: This is the book in question https://tadoku.org/japanese/book/41614/