- 14 Dec 2013
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I thought I knew the 貸しがある vs 借りがある usages just fine, but then I read this sentence -
which confused me.
As far as I know, when you say 「-someone-には貸しがあるんだ」, it means "-someone- owes something to the speaker ", while 「-someone-には借りあるんだ」would mean "the speaker(me) owes something to someone".
With that said, the sentence in the screenshot doesn't make sense to me, even without any context. Lit. "I will also cooperate as much as possible, because バチェーラ owes me (favor, etc.)".
The context + previous events indicate that the speaker "owes one" to バチェーラ, because バチェーラ helped out earlier.
Following sentence - reply from the other person -
I don't easily dismiss things like this as grammar errors, because it's usually just me misunderstanding something, but unless the 「貸しがある」in that screenshot can somehow mean "I owe バチェーラ (a favor), so...", shouldn't it be 借り instead?
which confused me.
As far as I know, when you say 「-someone-には貸しがあるんだ」, it means "-someone- owes something to the speaker ", while 「-someone-には借りあるんだ」would mean "the speaker(me) owes something to someone".
With that said, the sentence in the screenshot doesn't make sense to me, even without any context. Lit. "I will also cooperate as much as possible, because バチェーラ owes me (favor, etc.)".
The context + previous events indicate that the speaker "owes one" to バチェーラ, because バチェーラ helped out earlier.
Following sentence - reply from the other person -
I don't easily dismiss things like this as grammar errors, because it's usually just me misunderstanding something, but unless the 「貸しがある」in that screenshot can somehow mean "I owe バチェーラ (a favor), so...", shouldn't it be 借り instead?
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