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So in lesson 6 で, we have the sentence レストランで フォークで たべました,
at the restaurant I ate with (by way of) a fork, could you also use と here instead of で? saying you ate with the fork? Would both be correct/one more correct than the other? Thanks for your time!No, フォークと would mean you ate with a fork as your dining companion – that is, in the sense of “I ate dinner with a friend”. =P
Though they both use “with” in English, the meaning is different in Japanese. The meaning of the particle で is, as you observed, something closer to “by means of”, but since it’d be downright clunky to use that phrasing in English, it’s normally rendered as “with”.
No, フォークと would mean you ate with a fork as your dining companion – that is, in the sense of “I ate dinner with a friend”. =P
Though they both use “with” in English, the meaning is different in Japanese. The meaning of the particle で is, as you observed, something closer to “by means of”, but since it’d be downright clunky to use that phrasing in English, it’s normally rendered as “with”.
Arigatou Joel-Senpai :)
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