もAlso, Too, As well, Even, Either, Neither

最近の返信 (合計14件)

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  Gambarre

  Thank you so much both! Language can be so subtle. It was the implied negativity with “but” vs additional statement of “also” that threw me. So interesting. Thank you for the examples, gives me a better overall understanding of the sentence construction and your responses are much appreciated!

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  Marcus_Aseth

  車は速い、でも危ない。
  The translation given is: “Cars are fast, and also dangerous.”

  Isn’t this wrong?
  As far as I know でも expresses contrast (but / however / nevertheless / even so), and not simply additional information.

  Therefore to me that sentence reads as “Cars are fast, but dangerous”

  The point of that sentence being there in the first place was to show that も retains it’s meaning even when combined with other particles, but if they wanted to show this it should have been for example through the construction で+も.
  バスでも車でも行ける ＝ We can go either by bus or by car. (We can go by bus as well as by car.)

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  Marcus_Aseth

  Regarding the sentence “車は速い、でも危ない” , I went ahead and did some more digging:

  I went and checked “A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar”, page 111 (でも).
  The description of this grammar point is "The te-form of desu + mo “even”, example sentences:

  先生でも間違う・間違います。
  Even a teacher makes mistakes.

  私は難しい仕事でもする・します。
  I will even do a difficult job.

  ここからでも富士山が見える・見えます。
  Even from here you can see Mt. Fuji.

  Notice that in all 9 example sentence this でも always follow a noun, or a particle as in the case of からでも, which makes sense because if we wanted to use this “even” with an i-adjective it would turn into ても, for example:

  安くても美味しい。
  Even if it’s cheap, it’s tasty.

  So let’s go back to the sentence 車は速い、でも危ない.

  If you really want to force this でも meaning on it would be

  車は速くても危ない。<...