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10-17-2011, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Maxful View Post
Hi, am I right to say that I cannot use "起きる" for the following phrases? If so, why? And is there any other verb choices that I can use instead?


1. オーブンの上段に棚をセットする

2. カセットテープをプレーヤーにセットする

3. テーブルの上にコーヒーをセットする

4. 皿を食器洗い機にセットする
What do you think 起きる means? You absolutely cannot use it in any of these sentences. Even if you ignore the plain meaning of 起きる (to get up, to wake up, to occur, to happen), it's an intransitive verb, and you're trying to feed it an object, which is agrammatical.

I'm honestly not sure you can even use セット for all of those. I know 置く works perfectly fine for putting coffee on a table. You 入れる things into the dishwasher and oven. However, you can definitely セット a tape in a tape deck. But I don't see why you couldn't 入れる a tape, either.

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