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  • February 21, 2015 at 4:51 am #47598

    Rhys
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    Hey could someone help us out here and just explain this Lang 8 correction for me? It’s the end of the sentence after the ‘but’, ‘が’.

    English: …but it Was too expensive.

    Here’s what I wrote:
    高いかったです。

    What they corrected it as:
    高すぎました。

    And this one. English: …but it was closed.

    Here’s what I wrote:
    しめました。

    What they corrected it as:
    しまっていめました

    Are these corrections dictated by the earlier part of the sentence? Or is it practically its own sentence when it’s separated by the ‘が’ as ‘but’?

    Thanks.
    Rhys.

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    February 21, 2015 at 2:11 pm #47601

    Joel
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    Xすぎる = too X. So 高すぎる = too expensive. They were just giving you what you asked for. =P Incidentally, the past tense of 高い is 高かった – you drop the い.

    しめる is transitive – (someone) closes (something) – while しまる is intransitive – (something) closes all on its very own. You’ll encounter transitive/intransitive pairs basically all the time in Japanese, so it’s important to know the difference. If you want to say that something is closed (i.e. that it’s in a state of having been closed), you use しまっていました. Not sure what the め is doing in there, though – typo?

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