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Hello,
In this sentence ジェリーにごはんを食べて欲しいです im struggling to understand why に is in between ジェリー and ごはん. Please shed some wisdom
Thank you
Where’d you read this? Some context might be useful, but if I’m understanding this right, the sentence reads “I want Shelley to eat rice.” The に marks シェリー as the agent of the verb – which is to say, the doer of the verb in indirect sentences where the doer is not the subject. Specifically, the main clause is the 欲しい, for which the subject is an implied 私, but シェリー is the doer of the subordinate clause ご飯を食べる.
If that makes any sense. =)
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