#3 4→2→3→1
ちゅうし します
明日の ハイキングは。。。
#5 3→2→4→1
Look for verb for -て しまいました。
And then the object of verb:
カメラをなくしてしまいました。
And then description (adjective or adjective phrase) for the object noun.
So I mistakenly thought that, if no one said anything, it meant my answers were right, so it’s good syzygy14 brought up my mistake to make me realize this was a wrong assumption on my part. I’ll be putting up less content to make sure any mistakes I might make do not go unnoticed.
Either way, I’ve improved a lot since I’ve been practicing this. I used to make so many mistakes. I’d say I used to get good answers 25% of the time and now it’s closer to 75-80% of the time.
I’m mostly doing them on my own but here’s one I’m not 100% sure about if someone would like to do it and most importantly, explain their answer.
I tried to walk through roughly how I thought about this one:
So here, although I suppose しにくい could just be on its own meaning “hard to do”, that’s a bit unlikely in a low context example sentence. More plausible is that we have 運転しにくい “hard to drive”. Then we know 車は and 大きくて can’t go at the end before です, and 大きくて can’t go directly in front of 車, so the only possible option is この車は大きくて運転しにくいです, which makes sense and is grammatical, so we’re done.
Great explanation.
Here 大きくて is an adverb since it precedes the verb 運転しにくい. I’m wondering why there’s a て there? Shouldn’t it be: 大きく運転しにくい since it’s just an adverb as in: really hard to drive. Am I understanding the meaning of 大きく correctly as in greatly?
It’s not an adverb. It’s used as an adjective to describe the car. The て form is used to connect to the rest of the sentence and can be interpreted as “and” in a translation.
車は大きい ＋ 車は運転しにくい ＝＞ 車は大きくて運転しにくい
Hmmm…
この【車は・大きく**て**・運転・しにくい】です。
So you mean:
This car is big and difficult to drive.
So the ～て form is connective.
So the difference between 大きく and 大きくて is that the former is an adverb and the later is the connective て form of the い adjective.
Yes, but “therefore” is overemphasizing the strength of that nuance. Notice that the dictionary’s English translations use “and” (and that they also have an implied “I am chaining these two things together because there is a cause and effect link” to them).
If I understand correctly, the nuance is fairly small, the only difference being that one is more explicit than the other.
I think it means something along the lines of Please sign this document.
So I would say:
(2) (3) …
I’m hesitating as to the order of the last and most importantly why. So if anyone wants to give it a shot.
I’d say it’s
この書類をご覧になってサインをお願い致します。
Please look at this document and sign it.
Reasoning:
おねがい goes together with いたします。
The part right after この has to be the object – and by context it’s clear that it’s 書類
There’s を right after that, so we put ごらんになって there.
And then ther’s one space left – and that’s for サインを
In that example, I’m assuming ご覧になって is this construction:
right?
An honorific-speech phrase for an action that involves directing one’s gaze toward something in order to observe or examine it.
この書類をご覧になってサインをお願い致します。
How does it comes to play when it comes to translation/interpretation? It’s the ‘please look’ trunklayer put in his translation right?
Both 2 and 3 end in を, and it is not grammatically possible to have two を connecting to the same verb – one has to be in a subclause or they have to have separate verbs in some other way. So it’s unlikely that they go right next to each other.
Strictly, the ご覧になって is just the “look” part – the “please” is in the お願い致します. But politeness doesn’t really translate directly – this kind of keigo sentence spreads a layer of politeness all across multiple parts of the sentence in a way that English doesn’t (and trying it gets you silliness like “would the honourable gentleman care for a cup of honourable tea?” that some early English writing on Japanese used).
Ah yeah, should’ve thought of that 
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So ごらんになって is けいご for look, just like いらっしゃる, 参ります、申します、いたします、いただきます and so on.
Alas, I’ve run out of these types of questions in the books I have!
For those who may be wondering, I sampled from those two books:
I personally liked the second better although I thought they were both good.
Speaking of which, remember when we were talking about ～という意味？It seems like this book also treats it as a construction on its own:
I like that it covers a lot things but I’m mostly looking for books with only exercises, not the actual explanations.
There’s also this one:
Like the previous one, it also provides explanations:
And also this one:
Which in my opinion is one of the best. The explanations can be a little bit on the concise side though:
So long story short, since there are no more ★ questions, I’ll have no choice but to practice something else:
Let me introduce a convenient store to people who like coffee.
(Name of the store) It’s possible to buy coffee online (with the internet).
To be send coffee is usually 200 yen except if you order 500 grams, it’s free.
★ So here I’m not 100% about ただになります. I think ‘it becomes free’. When I looked up ただ, I got: ‘free of charge’. I could be right but I’m less sure here.
★ What purpose does 上 serve here before 買う?
So, when you buy more than 500 grams, it becomes 200 yen cheaper.
Which doesn’t really make sense to me.
It’s not that 上 is before 買う、以上 is after 500 グラム.
以上 いじょう means ‘and above’.
https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/dictionary/entry_details.cfm?entry_id=14547
English Meaning(s) for 以上
noun, adverb
-
not less than; … and over; … and above; … and upwards; … or more
-
beyond (e.g. one’s expectations); above; more than; further than
no adjective, noun, adverb
- above-mentioned; aforementioned; foregoing
noun, adverb
- since …; seeing that …; now that …; once …
expression
- that’s all; that is the end; the end
If you buy 500g or more, delivery is free so it’s 200 Yen cheaper than if you buy <500g.
Does that make (enough) sense?
Ah yeah, I was exhausted yesterday, it makes total sense. Reading it now, it’s obvious. Both were silly mistakes. I was really sleep deprived the last week or so. Thanks.
Let me introduce a convenient store to people who like coffee.
(Name of the store) It’s possible to buy coffee online (with the internet).
To be send coffee is usually 200 yen except if you order 500 grams, it’s free.
So, when you buy more than 500 grams, it becomes 200 yen cheaper.
In the next sentence:
お店でコーヒーを選ぶのも楽しですが、忙しいときなど一度便利してみませんか。
So の here is likely nominalizes 選ぶ. When we say nominalizer we really mean a gerund at the end of the day, right? For those who may not be familiar:
a word ending in “-ing” that is made from a verb and used like a noun
(from Cambridge Dictionary).
I just want lay this to rest once and for all.
So here, the verb being 選ぶ, it means ‘choosing’.
The following particle【も】is the inclusive particle.
Re: 一度便利してみませんか。
I guess something along the lines of:
Why not try it once since it’s convenient.
I’m not 100% because of 便利する. I’m aware 便利 means convenient but I’m not sure how to interpret it in combination with する. I googled it and got:
I think a な adjective is considered like a noun which I understand:
ゲームする to play games.
So here it would be: ‘to make convient’? Regardless,
During busy times, why not try it to make it convient (for you)?
Is that it?
you misread that part. It says 利用
I think so…
追伸：あの書き抜きを読んで、私はコーヒーを飲みたくなってしまいました。
P. P. S.
I’ve made the same mistake 