kanrinin ni gomi no dashikata o kiitara, totemo teinei ni oshiete kuremashita.

direct object particle

Breakdown of kanrinin ni gomi no dashikata o kiitara, totemo teinei ni oshiete kuremashita.

• の: possessive case particle
• に: indirect object particle
• とても: very

Questions & Answers about kanrinin ni gomi no dashikata o kiitara, totemo teinei ni oshiete kuremashita.

Why is 管理人 followed by に?

Because 管理人に marks the person the speaker asked.

With 聞く, a common pattern is:

• 人に ものを 聞く = ask a person about something

So here:

• 管理人に = to the building manager / apartment manager
• ごみの出し方を = about how to put out the garbage

The whole first part means when I asked the manager about how to put out the garbage.

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What does 管理人 mean here?

管理人 usually means a manager/caretaker/superintendent of a building, apartment complex, dorm, etc.

In this sentence, it most likely means someone like:

• an apartment building manager
• a caretaker
• a superintendent

So this is probably a situation where the speaker asked the person in charge of the building about the garbage rules.

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What does ごみの出し方 mean exactly?

ごみの出し方 means how to put out the garbage or the way to dispose of trash.

It breaks down like this:

• ごみ = garbage, trash
• 出し方 = way of putting out / way of doing

So ごみの出し方 is literally:

• the way of taking out/putting out garbage

In Japanese, X の Y often works like Y of X or X-related Y, so this phrase means the method for dealing with garbage.

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