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Originally Posted by arukan
Hello, I am a newbie in this forum. よろしくお願いします。
I read two ことわざ and both happens to use the word ごとし
１．光陰は矢のごとし
２．過ぎたるはなお及ばざるがごとし
I learned that the particles put before ごとし is の and が.
I hope that anybody can explain the difference to me.
Thanks a lot.
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The が used in literary writing, proverbs included, has exactly the same meaning as の.
矢がごとし ＝ 矢のごとし = like an arrow
我が妻 ＝ 我の妻 = my wife