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05-08-2010, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
こと is one of the ways to turn a verb into a noun. English doesn't do it exactly parallel to the way Japanese does, but it's like turning "to eat" into "eating."

Other "nominalizers" are の and もの and わけ and ところ.
Oh, so could I generally say: whenever there is a の behind a verb, it´s a nominalizer? In the past I had some difficulties in translating for example .. いきるの... - could this have likewise the meaning "living"?
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