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Question about には usage I'm confused about the usages of には If I say to my girlfriend: 私には君がとてもきれい It translates to mean "in my opinion, you are very beautiful" but if her friends were to say (and no, they haven't, it's just a direct example from Tae Kim): 彼には、彼女がもったいなすぎる。 It means that "She is too good for him (she is totally wasted)", not "In his opinion, she is totally wasted" What is meaning of niwa in the second example, and how are we to differentiate between the two?

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I think I can best answer this using an analogy from English. Consider the following two sentences, both with "to me." (1) She is pretty to me. (2) She is useful to me. It should be immediately obviously that (1) expresses and opinion, but (2) states a fact. (1) is equivalent to saying "in my opinion, she is pretty." On the other hand, (2) is not an opinion - we don't read it as "in my opinion, she is useful." Rather, we understand the sentence as "she is useful" and "I am the person to whom she is useful." Likewise, in Japanese, the first sentence expresses an opinion because there is no set phrase "to be pretty to." The second sentence, however, is a set phrase where "ni" is the indirect object marker. XがYにもったいない, so it is not the same construction as the first sentence. I hope this helped!
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I think is like this (but i could be wrong too) 1.- To me, you are very beautiful (Instead of "in my opinion" just "to me") 2.- For him, she is too good / She is too good for him には if I remember correctly more than "In my opinion" is "for (in regard of)" so it could be: to me, for you, for him/her And for the difference between the two I think they´re the same

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