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Usage of で in Beginner Lesson 27

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Usage of で in Beginner Lesson 27

Postby roomtemperature5969 » August 19th, 2011 4:20 am

The final line of dialog in Beginner Lesson 27 reads as 刺身でいいですね. My question is what is meaning of で in this context? Is this a set phrase that only works with いい or is it a case of a more general grammatical pattern such as [noun]で[adjective]です? This page seems single out this combination of で and いい as a special case worth mentioning.

Thanks in advance for any light you are able shed on the matter.

-Matt

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Postby Psy » August 20th, 2011 9:11 pm

I'm leaning towards special case. For instance それでいい "it's OK like that." If you wanted to get grammatical で could be thought of "by way of" so "by way of that is fine." You might hear things like それで大丈夫、それでOK, それでよかったら, but it all falls under the same type of meaning. There might be some other examples but they're failing to come into mind right now. それで is also used a lot as a conjunction to mean "and so..." or "then..." To keep a conversation going you can say ”それで?” or just ”で?” to express "[what happened] then?/after that?"

Might be useful. Javizy will probably show up later and blow me out of the water, as he usually does. :wink:
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