Re: Query: Differences between adverbial NI and TO.

Bart Mathias wrote:

Aside from what muchan had to say...

When they are grammatically interchangeable, it might be one of these cases:

-to for bilateral, -ni for unilateral. That Japanese test that Ben gave
the URL for last week has a good example of this.

-ni for identity, -to for similarity. This will often be the case with
-to naru/suru vs. -ni naru/suru.


hmmmm... I don't quite get "identity" and "similarity"...

I'd say "transformation" and "interpretation"... or
X-ni naru: something becomes X (something different).
X-to naru: something happens, and "it" (as a whole) becomes X (result)

hmmm...

muchan
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