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KyleGoetz (Offline)
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04-20-2010, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Sashimister View Post
Are you aware that these Japanese sentences have highly unlikely meanings while being grammatically correct?
Yes—they're pretty unlikely even in English (who really says "the wallet has been caused to fall by someone"??). I'm just regurgitating what Japanese textbooks say.
I really don't use てある very often. I prefer to use just the intransitiveている and passive forms. Glad that my instinctive avoidance of てある helps me avoid looking more like a fool than I already do!
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