Re: How many subjects are allowed?

Konrad Viltersten wrote: 
Suppose one'd like to express:
"I like the times when it's raining."
and puts it as follows:
私は雨が降っているの時　が/は　好きです。

Which is correct? On one hand i know it's supposed to
be が but that would give us two subjects. Is that OK?


私は ( (雨が降っている)時が)　好きです。
 I like the time when it's raining.

私は ( (雨が降っている)時は)　（"何か"が）　好きです。
 I like "something" when it's raining.

If this "something" is implicitely known,
私は ( (雨が降っている)時は)　好きです。
 I like "it" when it's raining.

No problem that a sentense has more than one subject,
in this case 雨が is the subject of 降っている.

About the subject of 好きです, if you conceive it as "to like"
in English, 私 seems subject, but 好き in Japanese is like
"aimable" "lovable" "being fond of" so in (my) first sentense,
the grammatical subject of 好き is 雨が降っている時.

HIH

muchan

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