raikado
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- 29 Oct 2012
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Hello,
I was looking through some old notes and I found this sentence that I never asked about. I would like to confirm if my understanding is correct.
どうして隠れるんですか?
She is clearly asking why they are hiding. Why does she use the plain form to indicate what they are doing now?
Why not use 隠れている instead? Is it because it would be interpreted as a resulted state ("Why are we hidden?") and not an action in progress?
I was looking through some old notes and I found this sentence that I never asked about. I would like to confirm if my understanding is correct.
She is clearly asking why they are hiding. Why does she use the plain form to indicate what they are doing now?
Why not use 隠れている instead? Is it because it would be interpreted as a resulted state ("Why are we hidden?") and not an action in progress?