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Hi everyone, first time I use this forum.
I would like to get some help with a sentence I found on the japanese version of The Ring (the book).
I'm not that highly skilled in Japanese, so it might very well be a simple sentence for someone more experienced, thus I apologize if I'm wasting your time.
The sentence I encountered is: 天候のせいでハデに遊ぶこともできず、かといってねっとりとまとわりつく湿気が気持ち悪くて勉強をする気も掛かる。
Now I do understand the first half up to the comma (for context the weather is extremely hot), and the last part from the terrible sensation of the humidity onward.
What I don't get is the section in-between those two.
The lack of ideograms actually makes it very hard for me to understand it.
I assume the first part (かといって) means "on the other hand" or something similar.
ねっとりと should refer to the humidity being sticky, can you guys help me with the rest of it?
Thanks a lot.
 
on the other hand ねっとりとまとわりつく湿気 が 気持ち悪くて 勉強をする気も掛かる。

Does that help. You are very close to getting it by yourself.
 
Sorry for nitpicking, but since the last part 勉強をする気も掛かる doesn't make sense at all, I googled and got the correct one 勉強をする気も起こらなかった. Probably you misread or miswrote it?

As Majestic-san shows, ねっとりとまとわりつく modifies 湿気, and ねっとりとまとわりつく湿気が気持ち悪くて is the subordinate clause explaining the reason why 勉強する気も起こらなかった. Hope this helps, too.
 
Toritoribe said:
Sorry for nitpicking, but since the last part 勉強をする気も掛かる doesn't make sense at all
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Oh, well, that explains everything. Not that I spent an hour looking up usages of 掛かる and scratching my head or anything.
 


SomeCallMeChris said:
Oh, well, that explains everything. Not that I spent an hour looking up usages of 掛かる and scratching my head or anything.
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Thank you guys and sorry for the mistake, yes I definitely read the wrong line while quoting the sentence cause I was in a rush, I apologize!

Allow me to add though that I do understand the construction of the sentence, what I don't understand is the meaning of ねっとりとまとわりつく.

Grammatically the sentence makes total sense to me, I just cannot seem to find anywhere the translation of まとわりつく.
 
まとわりつく ＝ まつわりつく

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「まとわりつく」の英語・英語例文・英語表現 - Weblio和英辞書

｢まとわりつく｣は英語でどう表現する？【単語】【例文】Why are you following me around?...【その他の表現】⇒「まつわりつく」を参照... - 1000万語以上収録！英訳・英文・英単語の使い分けならWeblio英和・和英辞書
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Thank you, my dictionary wouldn't show me まとわる as an alternative to まつわる.
 
It's reasonable that your dictionary doesn't have the reading まとわる since まとわる is not used nowadays. Especially, for the meaning "to be related to~/concerning~", only まつわる is used, and まとわる is never used for this meaning.

This is a bit confusing, but 纏う is まとう, and まつう is obsolete. The same goes with まとわす vs. まつわす. まとわす is common, and まつわす is not used. (This is because まとわす is originally from the classical causative form of まとう.)

As for まとわりつく, although it's indeed the combine verb of まとわる and つく, many dictionaries has the entry of this word now. You can think it's used like a single verb.

According to NHK's research in 2014, over 80% of people only use まとわりつく, and never use まつわりつく. Then, NHK changed their domestic rules for broadcasting from the previous one "both まつわりつく and まとわりつく are equally recommended" to the new one "まとわりつく is the primary reading" in 2018.

In conclusion, it's safe to use the following readings.
まとう
まとわす
まつわる
まとわりつく
 
If I may ask for another piece of advise, I encountered this sentence in the book:
それ以外の何者かに対してである。
The sentence that precedes this says that the FMC is not talking to her parents.
So this sentence should mean that she is talking to someone/something else.
What I don't understand is the use of the か particle in there. Shouldn't the sentence work just as good without it?
Thanks
 
何者 is 'who'
何者か is 'someone'

Same principle as だれ・だれか, the same pattern occurs across a lot of question words, most of which have dictionary entries for both the question word and the +か word.
 
As Chris-san explained, "question word + か" shows "uncertain".

いつ when - いつか someday/sometime
どこ where - どこか somewhere
誰 who - 誰か someone
何 what - 何か something
なぜ why - なぜか somehow/for some reason

何者かが来た Someone came.
何者が来た（＝ 何者が来た？） Who did come?

Thus, the sentence would be interpreted as an interrogative sentence if か isn't there.
それ以外の何者に対してである。（＝それ以外の何者に対して（なの）か？）
 
I get it now, my mistake was to assume that 何者 meant "someone" and not "who". That's why I wouldn't see the reason for the か particle to be there.
Thank you both for your time.
 
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