{"id":287,"date":"2013-06-05T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2013-06-05T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:40:56","slug":"ageru-kureru-morau-genki-ii-chapter-14","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/grammar-index\/genki-i-ii-grammar-index\/ageru-kureru-morau-genki-ii-chapter-14\/","title":{"rendered":"ageru, kureru, morau ( Genki II Chapter 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><strong>\u3042\u3052\u308b\/\u304f\u308c\u308b\/\u3082\u3089\u3046<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japanese has two verbs for giving. The choice between the pair depends on the direciton of the transaction. Imagine a set of concentric spheres of relative psychological distances, with me at the center, you next to me, and all the others on the edge. When a thing moves away from the center, the transaction is described in terms of the verb \u3042\u3052\u308b. When a thing moves toward the center, the verb we use is \u304f\u308c\u308b.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u3042\u3052\u308b -&gt; I give to you, you give to others, I give to others, somebody gives to somebody else<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u304f\u308c\u308b -&gt; Somebody gives me, you give me, somebody gives you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">With both \u3042\u3052\u308b and \u304f\u308c\u308b, the giver is the subject of the sentence, and is accompanied by the particle \u306f or \u304c. The recipient is accompanied by the particle \u306b.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>(Giver) \u306f\/\u304c (Recipient) \u306b<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; (giver) gives to (recipient)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>(Recipient) \u306f\/\u304c (Giver) \u306b\/\u304b\u3089 \u3082\u3089\u3046 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>(recipient) receives from (giver)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3042\u3052\u308b\/\u304f\u308c\u308b\/\u3082\u3089\u3046 Japanese has two verbs for giving. The choice between the pair depends on the direciton of the transaction. Imagine a set of concentric spheres of relative psychological distances, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}