Grammar Help

[drewa]

Hi I was wondering how to use 窶堙娯?吮??窶堙?
Does it work similarly to 窶堙?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Angel Valis]

Do you have an example where you've seen it used that is confusing you?

Often (I'm certain there are other uses...at least there always seems to be) の中で comes after a class of things to denote "among" or "within" that class.

Example:
スポーツの中で、どれが一番好きなスポーツですか。
"Out of/among all sports, which is your favorite?"

 

[SomeCallMeChris]

Mostly not, but it depends on context.
Usually it's used as 'inside' like 駅の中で待っていました。
It can also be used like 'among' as in 都道府県の中で北海道は最も北です。

Maybe a look at the dictionary entry would help, there are many examples of the ways 中 can be used with various particle combinations, ﾂ｢窶堙遺?堋ｩﾂ【窶吮??ﾂ】ﾂ｣ 窶堙ｰ窶ｰpﾅ津ｪ窶堙??｢\ﾅ陳ｻ窶堋ｷ窶堙ｩ窶堙 - Yahoo!ﾅｽﾂｫﾂ鞘?麓/url]

 

[raguna]

In the following case 日々のなかで最も面白いことは、夜夢をみることだ。 usage is similar to de ichiban/mottomo but I think adding no naka de implies a multitude of alternatives? It differs from naka ni in the way that de is often followed by a comparison. For example you would use ni for われわれのなかに裏切り者がいる！But you would say de for われわれの中で、だれが一番裏切り者らしいと思う？

You can also use no naka de to simply describe "among ..." for example 彼らの中で or 自然の中で where I'm pretty sure it has to be followed by a verb, describing how someone had fun in a group of people for example, rather than pointing out a specific person in a group of people.. unless you use comparisons.

Lots of example sentences: ﾂ「ﾂ〜窶堙娯?吮??窶堙?」窶堙嫁?ﾃ麺廣窶堋ｵ窶堋ｽ窶ｰpﾅ津ｪ窶氾｡窶｢ﾂｶ窶堙戸?ｪ窶披? - Weblio窶ｰpﾅ津ｪ窶氾｡窶｢ﾂｶﾅ椎ｸﾂ催ｵ

 

[drewa]

I didn't have any example sentences. But thank you all of you for your help I understand now!