charusu
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- 23 Feb 2011
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I am reading a discussion in "Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar" by Yuki Johnson that deals with the use of は as a contrast particle. As an example the sentence 私はすしは食べます..., meaning "I eat sushi (but not something else)..."
I ran across a sample sentence that contains a word about which I am confused: なく.
The sentence is: 私は家ではなく会社で、お茶ではなくコーヒーを飲みます、meaning "I drink coffee, not tea, at work, not at home".
I notice that なく follows something that is negated. Kotoba, the super awesome dictionary for iOS, says that ない is an adjective that means unpossessed or nonexistent among other things. Could なくbe the adverbial form of ない ?
Any discussion of this word (if it is indeed the one being used) would be greatly useful!
Thank you very much!
チャルス
I am reading a discussion in "Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar" by Yuki Johnson that deals with the use of は as a contrast particle. As an example the sentence 私はすしは食べます..., meaning "I eat sushi (but not something else)..."
I ran across a sample sentence that contains a word about which I am confused: なく.
The sentence is: 私は家ではなく会社で、お茶ではなくコーヒーを飲みます、meaning "I drink coffee, not tea, at work, not at home".
I notice that なく follows something that is negated. Kotoba, the super awesome dictionary for iOS, says that ない is an adjective that means unpossessed or nonexistent among other things. Could なくbe the adverbial form of ない ?
Any discussion of this word (if it is indeed the one being used) would be greatly useful!
Thank you very much!
チャルス