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Japanese, majoring in Japanese literature of Heian period
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- 切り替わらず is consist of 切り替わる + ず. "verbs + ず" is "not + verbs" in english. ず is old or formal form of "ない". in Japanese grammar, verbs change their form depends on auxiliary-verbs. Japanese verbs end in "-u" like 切り替わる (kirikawar-u). it's dictionary form. when you use ず or ない, the "-u" turns into "-a" like 切り替わら (kirikawar-a). it's called imperfective form.0 votedOctober 4, 20130
- であるために is same meaning as なので and だから. であるために is a literary style of them. and であるように can use many situations. perhaps you saw であるように in something like this; 父が医者であるように、私も医者である。 it means I'm a doctor as my father. in this case, であるように can say in this words; "と同じように". and it's used in these other cases.. 1. seem, like, as if 彼はまるで先生であるように話す。( 彼はまるで先生であるかのように話す is more natural ) -----he talks as if he were a teacher. 彼は病気であるように見える。 ----- he seems to be rich. 2. such that......in this case, it same as であるような or ような anyway, we don't use both two (especially latter) phrases in our usual conversations. it might be used in any books or newspapers.0 votedOctober 4, 20131
- If you want to say "I decided to study," we say "勉強する ’こと’ に/を決めた". It needs 'こと', it's similar to "decide + 'to' +verb". You can use both に and を in this case. There are many differences between を and に. But the biggest one is, "に" stand for the goal, on the other hand "を" stand for the way point. So, when you say "電車を降ります," you alight "from" a train. You don't alight "onto" a train. The other way around, if you want to say "I went to school," you can't say "わたしは学校を行った" because you go toward school, don't pass through. There are many difficult subtle differences in Japanese post-positional particle. Even Japanese often make a mistake... I'm sorry that my English is not good enough...0 votedOctober 4, 20131

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