Quirky subjects (also called oblique subjects) are a linguistic phenomenon whereby certain verbs specify that their subjects are to be in a case other than the nominative.
For example, a sentence like "*Me like him" is ungrammatical in Standard English because the subject is ordinarily in the nominative. In many or most modern nominative–accusative languages, this rule is inflexible, the subject is indeed in the nominative case, and almost all treat the subjects of all verbs the same. Icelandic is of interest to linguistics as it has been argued to be the only modern language with quirky subjects...
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Heya I came across the following and wasn't able to identify one character:
So far I've got "待てマントで自「？」ふくな", where ? is the character I can't quite identify.
I was reading Kanzen Master Bunpou 2kyuu and I got to this sentence:
この薬によっては副作用が出ることがあります。
I read the explanation and it's:
ある～の場合には＜（～によっては）が使われる＞
I looked up How does は apply itself to によっては?
But I still do not understand how the meaning changes.
I think it means:
Depending on ...
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