Re: An example with "sonaeru"


"Phil Yff" <phil.yff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1rr36gzq2lkgh$.1aoki0ktwd9ba$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:42:37 +0900, B. Ito wrote:

"Phil Yff" <phil.yff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:51:43 +0900, B. Ito wrote:

I see this そなえる-sonaeru more frequently. I think we can also say,

常識を備えている
Joushiki wo sonaete iru
Endowed with common sense or possessed of common sense

Mata ato de,

Phil Yff
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That's right.
Then next comes '、、、、が備わっている.'

How about this as an example:

人間には言語能力が備わっていたものです.
Ningen ni wa gengo nouryoku ga sonawatte ita mono desu.
Humam beings have an inherent language ability.

Mata ato de,

Phil Yff
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人間には、、、、、、備わっています。
人類には、、、、、、備わっていました。

'--------が--------備わっていたものです。' is pretty hard to
let me think of such a sentence as is appropriate in
its context. 　　You mean 'used to' or 'would often'?

I think I just fell out of another tree. -たものです would make the sentence
mean Human beings used to have an inherent language ability. Does this
make more sense:

人間には言語能力が備わっていることです.

Mata ato de,

Phil Yff
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Yes, that's right. ’・・・備わったものです。' 　is another tree.

’・・・備わっていたものです。’, however, has two branches:
1) ........what was (or had already been) installed in .......
2) ........(usually) used to be installed in ............

As to you last example of '......備わっていることです。',
this ’こと'　makes another problem.

To make it contextual, you need another sentence,
for example, like;

人間は他の動物には見られない偉大な能力も持っている。
（それは）人間には原語能力が備わっていることです。

Without the former sentence, ’・・・備わっている。’ is enough.

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B. Ito






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