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"However, for some reason I'm

"However, for some reason I'm not aware of, you need to insert the topic particle before 「ない」 to get 「ではない」."

Maybe because でない looks too much like 出ない?

Posted by Anonymous on Jul 18th, 2010 at 8:14 pm.

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