"I hate high places."
Translation:高い所は嫌いです。
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I believe は is often used in negative sentences with 嫌い. Just like が is used in positive sentences with 好き. Im not sure if there is a grammatical reason other than that's just how it's done.
Yes it should but I think they use wa her to soften the edge of 'kirai' as it were because it is such a strong word...
How come wa softens sentences? I've read that ga can be used for pointing out something that's different.
That's more like unlikable or unfavorable. dislike is a verb and 好きじゃない is an adjective
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好き is an adjective we use to mean "I like ~", so wouldn't it be the same thing to say that 好きじゃない means "I dislike ~" and 嫌い (also an adjective) means "I hate ~"? Technically the parts of speech don't line up with our English usage, but the meaning lines up.
場所 is generally for a more specific place, ところ is for "places" in a more general sense.
Yes, but if you wanted to avoid confusion, you could say "高直なところはきらいです". 高直な (こうじきな) means "high priced", but it's not listed a a common word, so the confusion must not occur often.
Because the last word in the sentence is an adjective ending in "i", shouldn't you be able to omit the "desu"?
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Kirai is a na *adjective.
In casual speech you can change "desu" to "da", and in casual, casual speech you can just drop it.
Why would the sentence be phrased like this? I would think that it make more sense to use きらいます as opposed きらいです. (I know one is a transitive verb and the other is noun+copula.)
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I'd say it's for the same reason that people say 好きです (suki desu) to mean "I like ~" rather than using a verb, that's how Japanese people normally say it.
