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Nominalizing verbs

Arron

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31 Dec 2010
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To nominalize a verb, do you take dictionary form and add 事?

Eating noodles with chopsticks is difficult. It's easier with a fork.
箸で、らめんを食べる事が難しいです。フォークでもっと簡単です。

Is this correct? Or is there another "nominalizer" I should use?
 
It completely depends on the main verb/adjective.
koto


箸で麺[めん]を食べること/の難しいです。フォークは/ならもっと簡単です。

難しい can take both こと and の. In these cases, の sounds more colloquial.
ラーメン only refers to a type of noodles, just like うどん, そば, きしめん...

食べるに or "the dictionary form without any nominalizer + particle" is basically used in classical Japanese. (e.g. 食べるに難[かた]し)
 
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