Monday, November 5, 2018

particles - How to break down who did what in AにBをCさせる


I'm trying to understand the following:




後輩にサイフを開かせることはないよ



I guess this could be generalized as AにBをCさせる.


It's confusing. Maybe if someone can break down how to understand this and then I can memorize it.



Answer



Usually, you have a sentence like:



後輩がサイフを開く
koohai ga saihu wo hirak-u

'the junior opens the wallet'



where the subject takes and the object takes .


There is a morpheme -(s)ase- 'let', 'make' that expresses causative. The way you use it is that you embed the sentence, and change the embedded subject into , take another subject that will be the causer.



君が後輩にサイフを開かせる
kimi ga [koohai ni saihu wo hirak]-ase-ru
'you let [the junior open the wallet]'



In your example, the subject 君が is actually omitted, so you have




後輩にサイフを開かせる



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