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Postby japanapa » August 26th, 2008 5:14 am

Hi!!
Can someone explain what the particles in the following sentences do and why they are there or are they a set expression? Especially the hitsuyou to suru bit.
Sorry that I can't in Japanese:
kyouiku wo hitsuyou to suru baai mo aru.

Thank you!!

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Postby jaypunkrawk » August 26th, 2008 6:35 pm

教育必要するばあいある。

Thought I'd type the Japanese out for you.
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Postby Psy » August 26th, 2008 11:14 pm

hitsuyou to suru is pretty well a set expression meaning "to need/require/take." The wo marks the object so literally kyouiku wo hitsuyou to suru is "[some subject] requires education." baai ga aru is another expression meaning literally "the situation exists," but is used to mean "there are cases where." When you replace ga with mo it becomes "there are also cases where," so the full sentence means "there are also times when [subject] needs education." The subject, of course, is up to context.
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Postby hatch_jp » August 27th, 2008 2:15 pm

Sometimes there are cases that require education.

I looked into many website to figure out how I can explain と in "必要とする".
However,I couldn't find out any appropriate answer.

I hope the following site can help you understand.
http://eow.alc.co.jp/%e5%bf%85%e8%a6%81 ... TF-8/?pg=1

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