edwinbradford
edwin
- 26 Feb 2004
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Hi everyone, I haven't been here for a few weeks. I'm right at the end of Minna no Nihongo, chapter 49 and I've come across something I don't understand. In a reading exercise the sentence reads (sorry, I'm at work and I don't have Kanji installed on this PC)...
Toukyou daigaku o sotsugyousare, ooku no bungaku sakuhin o okaki ni narimashita.
He graduated Tokyo University, and came to write many works of literature.
But I don't understand the "sotsugyou-sare" ending. It's before a comma so it seems to me it should either be -sarete, or -sarimashite, a -te ending. I can't think of how it becomes a -sare, ending??
Can anyone explain it to me? Many thanks.
Toukyou daigaku o sotsugyousare, ooku no bungaku sakuhin o okaki ni narimashita.
He graduated Tokyo University, and came to write many works of literature.
But I don't understand the "sotsugyou-sare" ending. It's before a comma so it seems to me it should either be -sarete, or -sarimashite, a -te ending. I can't think of how it becomes a -sare, ending??
Can anyone explain it to me? Many thanks.