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What is the difference between ใใๆ้ใฏใชใ and ใใๆ้ใใชใ ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between ใใๆ้ใฏใชใ and ใใๆ้ใใชใ ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Basically, these are same. The two sentences mean "There is no time", "We are out of time" or something like these.
But, the functional difference of these words in the Japanese language is important for better understanding.
You can consider "ใฏ" as a topic marker particle and "ใ" as a subject marker particle.
The topic maker is used to mark the topic, what the speaker wants to talk about, of a sentence.
So, the most important word, the topic, in the first sentence is "ๆ้" and the grammatical subject corresponding to "ใชใ" is left out. The omission of the subject implies that the subject doesn't matter in the sentence. Because, we can understand that the topic is "ๆ้" and the subject for "ใชใ" is "ๆ้" in the sentence.
On the other hand, the subject marker is used to mark the subject of a sentence.
Therefore, "ๆ้" (the subject) and "ใชใ" (the predicate) are equally important to construct the second sentence, which means "There is no time". Unlike the first sentence, what the speaker wants to talk about is "There is no time" per se.
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