Breakdown of yuki ga ryokou no shougai ni natta.
がga
subject particle
のno
possessive case particle
旅行ryokou
travel
なるnaru
to become
Questions & Answers about yuki ga ryokou no shougai ni natta.
What is the basic structure of 雪 が 旅行 の 障害 に なった?
A helpful breakdown is:
- 雪 = snow
- が = marks snow as the thing being talked about grammatically
- 旅行 = trip / travel
- の = links 旅行 and 障害
- 障害 = obstacle / hindrance
- に = marks the result of a change
- なった = became
So the sentence is roughly:
Snow became an obstacle to the trip.
A very literal gloss would be:
As for what happened, snow became a travel obstacle.
Why is が used after 雪?
が marks 雪 as the grammatical subject: the thing that became something.
So in:
雪が障害になった
the snow is the thing that turned into / functioned as an obstacle.
If you changed it to は, the nuance would shift:
- 雪が旅行の障害になった = Snow is what became the obstacle.
- 雪は旅行の障害になった = As for snow, it became an obstacle to the trip.
So が sounds more neutral and event-focused here.
What does 旅行の障害 mean exactly?
