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 が
and the object takes を
.
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 が
into に
, 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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