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sasuga 377
2L Y lZ*1baL
S.ffl&it, +E~hEb;t:ZI:;iI:dr 5 R,
(Even on my father the recent hospitalization seemed to have been
hard.)

S-iffl0%&L:6, &8fl&*bafil3I:,
(The great teacher that he was, even he couldn't figure out the solu-
tion.)
fbl: 13
{i&$j&7~dr 5 -72, ~3az7-+$?~it~b~~I:~iis.f$
729 k,
(He seems to like meat a lot and it was impressive that he ate two large
steaks.)
9s 2i;t:S.ffll2h0 ~'-IL$~%$&,LTL~~I:~:~
(As might be expected of John, he drank 10 bottles of beer.)

Sasuga expresses one's strong feeling that s.t. has turned out as one
expected, as shown in KS(A) - (D), Exs.(a) - (0, (i) and (j), or that s.t.
has turned out to be contrary to one's expectation, as in KS(E), Exs.(g)
and (h) as one has not expected.

In the structure sasuga wa X da, wa can be omitted.
Sasuga - dake may take either atte or ni as shown in KS(C), (D) and
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In the case of sasuga no X mo, the speaker wants to say that s.t. has zss
occurred contrary to what one can expect from the characteristics of X,
as in KS(E), Exs.(g) and (h).
Sasuga can be used like an exclamation in conversational Japanese.
L 15.) L ltL vi ? 1
(1) A: ~~$IC~EJ&~%L:-JB~T~.*~I:+~
7?dr0
(I heard that Yarnada passed the bar examination on his first
attempt.)
B: PbS!
(I knew he would.)