The7thSamurai
Master of the Universe
- 4 Feb 2005
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I'm reading this book about this Japanese woman's adventures in London (don't get too excited, it's actually really boring), and I came across this sentence:
あ の日の記憶を消せるものなら消してしまいたい
She's describing an unpleasant past event. I'm pretty sure I get the meaning, something like "if I could erase the memory of that day I would", but I don't get how both the もの and なら fit together. Does あ の日の記憶を消せるもの mean "thing that can erase the memory of that day"? なら means something like "provided that...", "as long as there is" etc, so it would mean "if/provided that there was もの then I want to erase it for good".
What do you all reckon?
あ の日の記憶を消せるものなら消してしまいたい
She's describing an unpleasant past event. I'm pretty sure I get the meaning, something like "if I could erase the memory of that day I would", but I don't get how both the もの and なら fit together. Does あ の日の記憶を消せるもの mean "thing that can erase the memory of that day"? なら means something like "provided that...", "as long as there is" etc, so it would mean "if/provided that there was もの then I want to erase it for good".
What do you all reckon?