～てならないVery, Extremely, Can't help but do

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  simias

  I’m really confused by this point because I don’t really understand the underlying concept of the Japanese construction.

  To take one of the examples discussed previously here:

  詐欺にあった気がしてならない。

  I think that a very literal word-for-word translation would be something like “it can’t become that I feel that it was a fraud” or something like that, but this seems to imply the opposite of what it actually means.

  I actually first encountered this point outside of Bunpro in a videogame I was playing, and I had to look it up here because I couldn’t make sense of it even in context since it seemed to say the opposite of what it’s actually saying.

  I don’t get where this negative is coming from and how this expression came to mean that.

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  nekoyama

  I don’t think this works as a literal translation, the two parts aren’t linked in this fashion.

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  simias

  Yeah I noticed that dictionaries would have a separate item specifically for this use, but it’s quite funny as a result because it seems like the word says one thing and its opposite: