"I lost my wallet at the store."
Translation:店で財布をなくしました。
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〜てしまう adds the meaning of "can't be undone." 財布をなくしてしまった means "I lost my wallet (unintentionally)."
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A bit late but here goes:
Properly, に marks the target or indirect object of a verb: “I talk to him” = 彼に話します. For “existence verbs” like ある、いる、住む the target happens to be a location.
If a place is not the target of the verb but simply where it happens, it's marked with で.
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Replying because I'm interested too. Why で and not に? Is it because it explains details about the action of loosing the wallet?
Correct, で is used because it's giving context to a transitive verb.
AでBをC
C is the verb, B is the direct object the verb acted on, and A is either the place it happened, or another object that was used to perform C.
e.g. 箸で寿司を食べます (I eat sushi with chopsticks).
or レストランで寿司を食べます (I eat sushi at a restaurant).
That example applies to transitive verbs that need a direct object, i.e. use the を particle. With intransitive verbs に can be used. To take an example from an earlier lesson:
山に登りました ("I climbed the mountain," or more literally, "at the mountain, I ascended").
I think using に for this question would imply that you lost the wallet "at" the store in the same way you would throw a ball "at" a wall, which doesn't make sense. It would be used in different contexts like
e.g. 田中さんに花をあげます (I give flowers to Mr Tanaka)
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Me too.
Maybe it's considered redundant because it would be less likely to lose someone else's wallet.
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That's the 音・おん reading: https://jisho.org/search/店%20%23kanji
Apparently the sentence is broken up first and then readings have to be chosen for each part without context.
what is the kanji for なくし？my typing prompted 失くしand I assumed it would be it as 失 means lost in Chinese. But it was not accepted by duo
So you use で for this, but に for forgetting something at a location? According to the Duolingo tips, at least...
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に is not a location marker per se. When it does so for certain verbs that's because their indirect object or target is a location (typically verbs about travel or existence).
で marks the location where something happens.
That's the only situation I can think of in which you wouldn't put お in front. Don't think I've ever seen 店 used without the お until this sentence here.