{"id":33,"date":"2011-07-27T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nihongo.3yen.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2011-08-08T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T15:15:54","slug":"explaining-the-explaining-%e3%81%ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/27\/explaining-the-explaining-%e3%81%ae\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the explaining \u306e"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s how I typically explain the explanatory \u300c\u306e\u300d when I teach it to my students.<\/p>\n

Question: I don’t understand the difference between the two:
\n1. \u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3059\u3002
\n2. \u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u3042\u308b\u3093\u3067\u3059<\/b>\u3002<\/p>\n

I fire back with another question: How would you say, “Isn’t there class today?”<\/p>\n

\u300c\u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u304b\uff1f\u300d simply means “Is there no class today?”<\/p>\n

“Isn’t there class today?” sounds like the speaker is expecting to have class today and is surprised that that may not be the case. That’s what we call seeking an explanation, which requires using \u300c\u306e\u300d.<\/p>\n

So the answer is:
\n\u300c\u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u306a\u3044\u306e<\/b>\uff1f\u300d
\nor
\n\u300c\u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u306a\u3044\u3093\u3067\u3059<\/b>\u304b\uff1f\u300d<\/p>\n

The simple answer to such a question would be:
\n\u300c\u306f\u3044\u3001\u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u306a\u3044\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3002\u300d<\/p>\n

Similarly, \u300c\u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u3042\u308b\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3002\u300d is saying that there is class today as an explanation for something. For example, maybe you want to explain why you can’t go to lunch.<\/p>\n

A-san: \u663c\u3054\u306f\u3093\u3092\u4e00\u7dd2\u306b\u98df\u3079\u307e\u305b\u3093\u304b\uff1f
\nB-san: \u3059\u307f\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3001\u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u3042\u308b\u3093\u3067\u3059<\/b>\u3002<\/p>\n

It helps to figure out the difference by looking at a situation where you have<\/i> to use \u300c\u306e\u300d to say something. There is no way to say things like, “Isn’t there class today?” without using \u300c\u306e\u300d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s how I typically explain the explanatory \u300c\u306e\u300d when I teach it to my students. Question: I don’t understand the difference between the two: 1. \u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3059\u3002 2. \u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u6388\u696d\u304c\u3042\u308b\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3002 I fire back with another question: How would you say, “Isn’t there … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginner","category-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}