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Daily reading schedule
Date
Page
Last Line of Page
Nov 23
27
Chapter title page
Nov 24
28
組みあわせると、いろんな言葉に
Nov 25
29
目を丸くしました。
Nov 26
30
友だちが、本を読んで
Nov 27
31
本に むちゅうだったのです。
Nov 28
32
大学に 行きたいと 思いました。
Nov 29
33
「、アーニャは、どうするの。」
Nov 30
34
科学 いちばん すきでした。
Dec 01
35
どんどん 上っていきました。
Dec 02
36
けっこんしましたが、ピエールも いっしょに
Dec 03
37
「放射能」と名づけました。
Dec 04
38
「ポロニウム」と 名前を つけました。
Dec 05
39
とりだす ことに せいこうしました。
Dec 06
40
この 大きな かなしみを のりこえ、
Dec 07
41
放射線には ちゅういしてくださいね。」
Dec 08
42
End of chapter
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「マーニャ、学校ごっこしよう。私が先生よ。」
“Manya, let’s play school. I am the teacher.”
七歳のブローニャが、文字の書いてあるカードを並べながら、言いました。
said the seven-year-old Bronya while aligning the cards with letters written on them.
お父さんから国語の勉強をするように言われたブローニャは一人ではつまらないので、四歳の妹のマーニャを誘ったのです。
Because Bronya, who had been told by her father to study the national language, was bored alone, she invited her four-year-old little sister Manya.
「私、字、読めない。」マーニャは、生徒になりましたが、何も分かりませんでした。
“I can’t read.” Manya played the role of the pupil, but didn’t understand anything.
でも、しばらくすると、（字と字を組み合わせると、いろんな言葉になるんだ！）と、気づき、夢中で遊び始めました。
But, after a short wile, she noticed that ‘If letters are joined together, they become various words!’, and she started to be absorbed by the game.
Would の be added to verbs of second form to form potential?
I am having hard time learning difference between potential, passive and causative. All apps I could find ask you to conjugate a verb in certain form instead of just asking to translate. I believe this builds a wrong habit of reacting on grammar term. It should be reaction on actual usage. Did I explain it well?
Meaning: in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; hoping or wishing for something
but I guess it doesn’t need anything after it? Since I assume the 言われた belongs to Dad who have told Boronya to study. So would 勉強をするように just translate to “study” but with the intention of studying inorder to meet an unspecified goal?
I don’t understand everything you wrote but maybe it helps if I explain how to make the potential form:
For godan verbs you just take the plain form and replace the last u-sound with eru. yom-u >>> yom-eru. This new verb is an ichiban verb and therefore conjugated like taberu etc. (yome-nai etc.)
Fo ichidan verbs you replace the ru of the plain form with rareru. (taberareru)
I think you are confusing two different usages of ように言う here. If there is a verb in front of ように that expresses an action that can be controlled, it is used to give an indirect imperative.
Not wanting to argue about details, but I don’t really see the difference?
Indirect quote: I was told to study. 勉強するように言われた。
Direct quote: I was told: “Study!” 勉強しなさいと言われた。
Also, the bunpro link (EDIT: now replaced because not accessible to everybody) says “Used to indirectly quote an order/request” - I just did not feel like repeating the full information here because in my mind the indirect quote is the important bit and the command-like nature follows from the contents anyway…
Sorry, I don’t use Bunpro and could not check your link. Therefore I just read the part saying that ように言うis used to quote but not word-by-word. I think this is a bit vague as this grammar point is about the indirect imperative when used with controllable verbs. And I think this is important to mention because as a beginner you probably won’t immediately see that there’s an imperative hidden in this structure.
Wouldn’t these be:
勉強するように言われた。 and
「勉強しなさい」と言われた。?
(Don’t want to argue about details either, this is an honest question. Can you just leave out the quotation marks in the second sentence? And why did you use ようにと in the first sentence?)
Oh, my bad! I thought the grammar points are free for everybody to look at. (But maybe it requires a subscription, don’t know.) I will use a different link.
Actually I wanted to say that ように is used to indirectly quote But yeah, probably you are right that it’s better to be more explicit about it.
Dang, that’s a typo. Sorry for the confusion!
Aren’t they usually left out with と except in special cases (like when you are quoting a single word or something)? I figured one can leave them out here as well. But this is something I don’t know well, so I asked a Japanese friend about it. Will report back as soon as I get an answer!
Ah, thanks a lot for your answer! It’s always good to check things that one has taken for granted and I’m not completely sure how to use と. I always thought you use quotation marks before と if it’s an direct quote and that と after an indirect quote doesn’t necessarily mean that you quote word-by-word. Thanks for asking your friend!
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But yeah, probably you are right that it’s better to be more explicit about it.
Sorry for the confusion!