Re: japanese particles (Was: Chinese writing systems)
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 7, 2002, 16:30 |
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:42:16AM -0500, Steg Belsky wrote:
> I think i learned "ni" for that kind of construction... |daigaku ni
> kaerimasu| "i go back to college".
"ni" usually carries more of an "at" implication. Of course, "to" and
"at" can have fuzzy boundaries depending on the language.
"kaerimasu" can't take "he", though, can it? It sounds weird to me. So
maybe it *has* to take "ni" by default. I wonder if this is like in Russian
where "na" and "v" are distributed according to whether a place can be
entered...
Amanda
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