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I have noticed that in Japanese, when we ask questions like “what were…for….”? sometimes, the question is phrased as if it is asking “what is the thing that became the…for…?” Please look at the 2 examples below. I suppose this is just the idiomatic way to ask such questions, but I’m wondering if it’d be wrong/unnatural to remove the **になったの** part? Would the sentences still mean the same thing, or would they be wrong?
７０個ものアイデアのなかから豆腐のゲームが選ばれる決め手**になったの**はなんだったんですか？
「こんな生活を続けていて大丈夫なのか？ちょっと異常なんじゃないか？」こう思うきっかけ**になったの**は、最近感じるようになった体の異変です。
I was confused by this:
> 大王たる俺様を差しおいて、部下のきさまが食うとは！
For context, there is a magical fruit that the king didn’t get to eat but some of the other characters in the story did get to eat, and he is complaining and yelling about it.
What’s confusing me is 差しおいて, I don’t exactly understand what use of 差す this would be nor do I really understand the conjugation being used here (reminds me of a keigo thing?)
Anyway, this may say something like “A great king like me ?, you underling bastards got to eat it!”
Can you add te form to negative words?
覚えません -> 覚えていません