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6 More on S + よ: nominalized sentence ‘that X does Y; for X to do Y; X’s doing Y’ よ attaches to a sentence and make it like a noun (i.e. nominalization). It functions like an
English complementizer that, to-infinitives, or gerunds in the following sentences.
1. 先生て研究室ゅぞやぞよら\変めび~ It is strange that Professor is not in his office.
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2. 二日めぶカゐびィよら\無理めび~ It is impossible to do all in two days.
3. 山価はカら\本オ読よて好でめび~ Mr. Yamashita likes reading books.
In Lesson 13C, you have also learned that よ following a direct style sentence indicates a
person or thing that is modified by the sentence as in ‘the one who/which/that ....’.
4. ぜぷねゅ立ぽむぞィよら\誰めびづ~ Who is the one (that is) standing over there? 5. 来やぞよら\誰めびづ~ Who is the one that is not coming?
6. 母親て日本人やよら\ラΔはカめび~ The one whose mother is Japanese is Bill.
Note, however, よ does not refer to a person or thing in (1)~(3).
Just as in the case of よ as ‘the one who/which/that...’, and also as ×よめび ‘I’d like you to know’, in nominalized sentences, ×ぺよ is converted to ×やよ for both nouns and や- adjectives.
7. ねよ車て以全やよらTMど知ぽむぞィ~ ≧○ねよ車て以全ぺよ∞ 8. 銀行て次よづゃやよら\知ァやづぽべ~ ≧○銀行て次よづゃぺよ∞
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