Particles of Human Interaction: wo, ni, to

The three particles wo, ni and to have a special relation to human interactions. Understanding this can make a lot of things clearer.

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"If we tickle somebody or kill somebody there is no mutuality is there"
Damn that escalated quickly

[Jaimico]

We are usually told to study these particles separately, but analyzed as a "set" just as you did in the video makes them easy to learn and understand! Thanks again Cure Dolly!!!

[MrKlumpfluff]

This should've been taught pretty early in standard education, It's a useful nuance. Thank you for making good examples and clear explanations.

[XUltrasund]

I just realized this intro was to the chimes of the bell in a school in Japan.

[theaquaelement]

This is the best lesson I've learned from Cure Dolly.

[daviddamasceno]

I recommended the channel to my friends, and I've been watching all your videos and studying them. I feel like I got a boost in my japanese since I started doing that. Thanks a lot. I even bought your book, it will arrive soon. Can't wait!

[arpitkumar]

Than you sensei for this lesson. Very well explained

[Joby]

So I'm curious, do you cover this concept in the standard series? I didn't think so and I actually found this one because I ran into と as "with" and went back to my notes and realized that wasn't in there. It seems related to と meaning "and", is that the case?

[osuosuosaka]

Hi Dolly Sensei,

I just found this on the net:

俊敏さを武器に、昨秋は１年生ながらベンチ入りを勝ち取った。

The opening clause looks like を is attached to ‘shunbinsa’, but why is this followed by ‘buki’? Is this noun being treated as a verb, or is something left out here? Or is this something else altogether?

[火災のアイスクリーム]

What と is doing in this sentence?

おぬしたちを光の戦士と
みこんで たのむ。

[amazingabigail]

ドリー先生, could '誰かを話す' be used colloquially to mean something similar to the English expression 'to talk at someone'? (As in, 'to speak to someone without listening to that person or allowing them to speak'*) If not, how would it be said? Thank you!




*Definition of 'talk at sb' from dictionary.cambridge.org

[zjb]

are her, him, tomodachi, officemate etc can use wo particle? can they be considered as an object? Im confuse with wo particle. please enlighten me. can you also add some examples sentence using this? All the examples on google are the same but I read a book that they also use wo on a person. like tomodachi wo 8jikan aimasu. enlighten me please.

[sixkicksfightertricks]

Does だれかにはなす mean ' talk to someone'?
Does だれかとはなす mean ' talk with someone'?

[ojiwankenobi]

Some non-human interactions stump me. Example -> in last week’s NHK NewsWebEasy was an article describing “Leaf Skiing” behind an elementary school in Aichi Prefecture. “. . . I’ve used を similarly without understanding why. E.g. when giving directions to a taxi driver, I might say, “用賀出口を出てください。” It would make more sense to me to use something other than を here.

Or when singing: “. . . 川面の上を雲が流れる. . .” Again the を marks a physical location where an action occurs.

I get that the lesson of the day was a body-building activity which featured Leaf Skiing. But never in a million years would it occur to me to build these sentences using を to mark a location.

The succession of “を. . .で-verb” phrases here is interesting.

[stanleykparker]

I had to get in my way-back machine to find an appropriate place to ask this question about を。I have found a number of example sentences where a noun which takes the added する becomes a verb, but を has been put inbetween.　料理をします、to cook, but りょうりします　is in the conjugation list. What's going on here?

[vaaqif]

Is this right?
子を死なせた.
I caused the child to die (eg. I didn't give it water for a week)
子に食べさせた. I let the child eat (eg. I set out food for them)
子と遊んで. I played with the child.