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09-25-2011, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
It sounds weird with に anyway, to me. It's hard to justify the use of に: 選手権 isn't the indirect object of 優勝する. It's, if any kind of object, a direct object requiring を (but this isn't used). But we use で instead because it's sort of locational (requiring the locative で particle), right?

「選手権にて優勝する」という意味ですよね。
Precisely. It is locational.

No idea where this common "mistake" among us Japanese-speakers comes from. It is too common to ignore and my ears already "accept" it like 80%.


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