Hello guys

Quite a while ago I went over the grammar / expression 「かねる」 and thought that I would slowly get to understand how this grammar is different from potential form / ことができない but I haven’t really learned anything since this grammar is so rare. So today when I saw「 ことができかねる」 I thought that there definetly must be a difference from this grammar and other ways to express things can / can’t happen. But I fail to understand this difference clearly :(

The explanations from Tae Kim say;

“When attached after the stem of a verb, かねる expresses the subject’s inability, reluctance, or refusal to do something. It can often be translated into English as “cannot” or “(am) not able.”

But yeah, I can’t tell the difference clearly between this grammar and other ways to express the same thing, so it would be great if someone could explain it to me :)

I don’t need an explanation of かねない ^^

Thanks in advance

Nah I am fine, but thanks for the offer though :)

Also, I live in EU :/

Meanwhile I am sticking with my promise to never spend too much on this fandom, and instead saving up for a trip to actually go to japan ^^

All I have is a few CDs the 生写真 which accompanied them and then a poster from the 1830m album :P

I envy all of you guys’ collections though… It is hard not to just go ahead and buy a bunch of goods.  :3

hahaha

owned

lol

Bought genki, no workbook, gave up… Wtf? lol

Several thousand posts on a forum, but complaining about time for learning…?

Just further reinforces what I think about people learning Japanese only because of anime & manga lol.

No, it was that there are too many differences between the two languages, so just learn it instead of trying to compare it.

which IMO is true

• This reply was modified 12 years, 1 month ago by  マーク・ウェーバー.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 1 month ago by  マーク・ウェーバー.

Clearly someone who barely understands a negative form of a noun knows way better than someone who has been studying for years.

Yeah…

lol