~がいい・~たまえ・two sentences, and a question,

[LewiiG]

Okay, I have been hearing sentences with ~がいい and something like たまえ at the end of them for a while now, but only now am I able to write down an example sentence. They seem to be both imperatives but if so why are they different to normal imperatives? Anyway, the examples are:

"キャラクタを選ぶがいい" and "ステージを選びたまえ"

Not the ~たほうがいい、it seems, and たまえ seems to be attached after masu stem.

1. What do they mean as oppossed to 選んでください？

2. As for these other things, I need to check meaning.

"倒してしまった。。。かまわん、だな" Does this mean something like, "It's no problem if I suddenly defeat/kill you, right?" Or something like that.

"泣いても、知らないから!" I recently learned that 知らない can also mean "to not care", (somehow) so I guess this means "I don't even care if you cry", but what purpose does から serve here? Indicating reason for what?

3. Is it just preference to use kanji as oppossed to kana for words like いい、こと、もの、or other words that can be seen frequently in both forms, or does it say something about the writer or speaker? (Speaker as in if you were reading a book where one character's lines use kanji versions and another character's doesn't for example). This just randomly crossed my mind after I finished writing the last two questions.

よろしくお願いします。

 

[Toritoribe]

1)
Yes, those forms work as an imperative.
～たまえ is the imperative form of an honorific subsidiary verb 給う, and ～がいい has a nuance of "it's better to do" as same as ～たほうがいい, so they sound softer than the normal imperative form 選べ.

2)
Maybe it's 倒してしまってもかまわんのだな?

から can be used as a sentence final particle to express the speaker's strong assertion/determination as same as ぞ. Unlike ぞ, から is used mostly by female.

3)
Case by case. Maybe it's just a preference, or maybe due to rules. For instance, hiragana is common for a nominalizer こと/もの.

 

[LewiiG]

1)
Yes, those forms work as an imperative.
～たまえ is the imperative form of an honorific subsidiary verb 給う, and ～がいい has a nuance of "it's better to do" as same as ～たほうがいい, so they sound softer than the normal imperative form 選べ.

Oh right, I see. Does anyone actually use present plain + がいい or masu stem + たまえ In real life? Or is it used for some sort of archaic effect?

2)
Maybe it's 倒してしまってもかまわんのだな?

Wow. You are perfectly right. It was exactly that. How did I miss that, hearing it again now... Lol.
So I guess that's, "you're okay with this, even if I up and kill you, right?"
It would be kill in this context, and the しまった indicates that he might even do it by mistake, in this case I believe...

から can be used as a sentence final particle to express the speaker's strong assertion/determination as same as ぞ. Unlike ぞ, から is used mostly by female.

I see. Then that makes perfect sense.

3)
Case by case. Maybe it's just a preference, or maybe due to rules. For instance, hiragana is common for a nominalizer こと/もの.

Hmm yeah okay. I thought something like that would be said. So preference, and certain words. I think I can work out when it's either of those. Thanks.

 

[Toritoribe]

Does anyone actually use present plain + がいい or masu stem + たまえ In real life? Or is it used for some sort of archaic effect?

～がいい is rarely, or almost never used, but ～たまえ is used, for instance in a situation from superior to subordinate.

So I guess that's, "you're okay with this, even if I up and kill you, right?"
It would be kill in this context, and the しまった indicates that he might even do it by mistake, in this case I believe...

Right. ～てしまう can connote "accidentally".

 

[LewiiG]

Alright. I've everything I came for.
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