Kriffix
Aspiring Manga-ka
- 6 Jan 2008
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Hey everyone, I`ve been in Japan for four months now and i have one left before i go home. Something i really can`t get to the bottom of is this...
(verb)ように~
(verb)ために~
(verb)のに (not the "despite" version)
all of these mean "in order to" and "so that" or so i`ve heard, although there are situations where they are interchangeable and also some where they are not. I've looked through all my books, asked natives and even entered the interwubs. I think the answer to this question lies in people who have been in this situation before though, and so i ask you guys out there to please lend me a hand if you have a third one.
Some examples and explainations as to why/why not would be mega super special awesome.
one last thing which will perhaps compromise my character...i haven`t really started studying Kanji. *DUN DUN DUN* however my excuse is perhaps one of the better ones (perhaps anyway) In these 5 months i wanted to practice verbally whilst i have natives around me, which is something i wouldn't be able to do at home. Sitting down and memorising stuff would be a real waste of opportunity. The 200 or so Kanji i know atm have been coincidentally picked up whilst being over here.
So basically what i`m asking is that...if examples could also have hiragana versions too?
お願いします!
(verb)ように~
(verb)ために~
(verb)のに (not the "despite" version)
all of these mean "in order to" and "so that" or so i`ve heard, although there are situations where they are interchangeable and also some where they are not. I've looked through all my books, asked natives and even entered the interwubs. I think the answer to this question lies in people who have been in this situation before though, and so i ask you guys out there to please lend me a hand if you have a third one.
Some examples and explainations as to why/why not would be mega super special awesome.
one last thing which will perhaps compromise my character...i haven`t really started studying Kanji. *DUN DUN DUN* however my excuse is perhaps one of the better ones (perhaps anyway) In these 5 months i wanted to practice verbally whilst i have natives around me, which is something i wouldn't be able to do at home. Sitting down and memorising stuff would be a real waste of opportunity. The 200 or so Kanji i know atm have been coincidentally picked up whilst being over here.
So basically what i`m asking is that...if examples could also have hiragana versions too?
お願いします!