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Help Use of しか~ない

nahadef

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27 Nov 2012
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I've already written and finished it, but I may make changes after if it's wildly wrong and confusing,

My usage of しか~ない is usually as a replacement of を or が.

If I want to use it as a replacement for に, does it work the same? For example:
火曜日しか行けない。/I can only go on Tuesday. Maybe 火曜日しかに?

Just to make this all-purpose, the same for で.
映画館しか(で)見れる。/You can only see it at the theatre.

I've been writing a lot of Japanese recently, and it's informed me of how much of the intricacies I never waded into! I've looked it up but didn't see any example using the に or で particles.
 
(typo: 見れる --> 見られない;))
The order of the particles is reversed. しか is always put after case particles, so it should be にしか and でしか. に and へ can be omitted, but で, から or まで are usually not, thus, 火曜日しか行けない is acceptable, but で is necessary in the second example sentence.
 
Thank you sir!

I had にしか in my first draft, but it felt very wrong. I am not yet attuned to Japanese grammar.
 
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