- 27 Apr 2014
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Textbooks and online courses are eager to teach you how to say "Person A did X without doing Y" using ~ないで and ~ずに. I'm wondering if there's a similar pattern for saying "Person A did X without Y happening", where the subject of Y is specifically not that same person.
A silly video game-related example: "I didn't know you could place doors in lava without them catching fire." My first attempt at writing this in Japanese was 「溶岩の中にドアを燃えずに置けるのは知りませんでした」, but I realized that this would sound like "Placing doors in lava without catching fire (yourself)".
I eventually settled with ドアを置くと燃えない, but is there a better way of saying this?
よろしくお願いします。
A silly video game-related example: "I didn't know you could place doors in lava without them catching fire." My first attempt at writing this in Japanese was 「溶岩の中にドアを燃えずに置けるのは知りませんでした」, but I realized that this would sound like "Placing doors in lava without catching fire (yourself)".
I eventually settled with ドアを置くと燃えない, but is there a better way of saying this?
よろしくお願いします。