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Help me with this sentence? :3

Dante17

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Hey there. Could someone please translate this sentence for me? The 'ni' particle is throwing me off as I'd expect it to be 'no'.

Tomodachi ni kyoukasho wo karimashita.

Thank you
 
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Don't really see kariru used with ni. It is usually used with kasu - to lend.

ともだちにきょうかしょを貸しました。
I lent my textbook to my friend.

ともだちのきょうかしょを借りました。
I borrowed my friend's textbook.
 
It's directly out of my genki text book :/
 
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It's like "I borrowed a textbook from my friend" (rather than "I borrowed my friend's textbook", which "no" would indicate). You may not have studied this yet, but it's similar to the use of ni with grammar patterns like "te morau".
 
As nekojita-san explained, "ni" or "kara" indicates the person you borrowed a textbook from, whereas "no" is for the owner of it. ("No" can also indicate the author of the textbook. It would be quite rare that your friend wrote a textbook, though.) They would be the same person in most cases, but it's possible that you borrowed a teacher's textbook from your friend or you borrowed your friend's textbook from his/her mother, so those two sentences are not the same.


かりる【借りる】の英語・英訳 - 和英辞書 - goo辞書
 
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