Through a dimension or thing

charusu

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Good evening,
I have been doing some reading about how the object particle (を) can be used with motion verbs to describe motion through a dimension. For example:
公園を道った。(Ran through the park.)
道を歩いた。(Walked along the street.)
I really have two questions:
1. How is this idea formulated with non-motion transitive verbs, like 'to see', how would I describe 'seeing through a window' for example.
2. It seems to me the a verb like 'to pull' is a motion transitive verb, I am trying to translate a sentence like "You pulled me through time." (from the awesome movie 'The Fountain'). It seems to me that in this sentence 'me' would take を, but then how would I express the 'through time' part?
Thanks everybody!
:)
 
1)
道った is a typo of 走った, right? :)

を indicates the location where the motion/action is done when used with 歩く, 走る, 通る, 上る, 下りる, etc. So it would be more close to the concept of "in/on/at" than "through". I would use expressions like ~を通して/~越しに for the case instead を (e.g. 窓を通して見る/窓越しに見る).

2)
Similarly to #1, 時を通して, 時を越えて.
 
Thanks Toritoribe! That makes sense! After some playing around I got my hands on a copy of the subtitles file for 'The Fountain', which translated the sentence to "あなたは時間を通り抜けて僕を引いた。", which makes perfect sense! You're such a "staying up all night banging my head into a wall"-saver!

:)
 
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