Breakdown of oyasirazu wo nuita ato, haguki ga hareta node, yukkuri kamimasu.
Questions & Answers about oyasirazu wo nuita ato, haguki ga hareta node, yukkuri kamimasu.
Why is を used after 親知らず, but が is used after 歯茎?
Because the two nouns play different roles in the sentence.
親知らずを抜いた
Here, 親知らず is the direct object of 抜いた (pulled out), so it takes を.歯茎が腫れた
Here, 歯茎 is the thing that became swollen, so it takes が as the subject of 腫れた.
So the structure is basically:
- [wisdom tooth] を [pull out]
- [gums] が [become swollen]
This is very common in Japanese: one clause can use を, and the next clause can use が, depending on the verb.
Why is it 抜いたあと and not 抜くあと?
Because あと means after, and when you say after doing X, Japanese usually uses the plain past form before あと:
- 食べたあと = after eating
- 帰ったあと = after going home
- 抜いたあと = after pulling out
So 親知らずを抜いたあと means after I had my wisdom tooth removed / after pulling out my wisdom tooth.
Using 抜くあと would sound unnatural here.
What does ので mean here, and how is it different from から?
ので means because / since, and it gives a softer, more explanatory reason than から.
In this sentence:
- 歯茎が腫れたので、ゆっくり噛みます。
- Because my gums got swollen, I chew slowly.
Difference in nuance:
- ので: softer, more neutral, often sounds more polite or explanatory
- から: more direct, sometimes more subjective or assertive
So both could work, but ので sounds very natural in this kind of explanation.
Why is 腫れた in the past tense?
腫れた is the plain past form of 腫れる (to swell).
It shows that the swelling happened after the tooth was removed:
- 歯茎が腫れた = my gums became swollen / got swollen
This past form focuses on the event of becoming swollen.
In real life, the gums may still be swollen now, but this sentence is describing the cause as something that happened:
- I had the tooth removed.
- My gums swelled.
- So I chew slowly.
Could this sentence use 腫れている instead of 腫れた?
Yes, and the nuance would change a little.
歯茎が腫れたので
Focuses on the fact that the gums became swollen歯茎が腫れているので
Focuses on the gums currently being swollen
So:
- 腫れたので = because my gums got swollen
- 腫れているので = because my gums are swollen
Both are natural, but 腫れている emphasizes the present condition more clearly.
Why is 噛みます in the non-past form, even though the earlier parts are in the past?
Because 噛みます describes the speaker’s current or usual action in response to the situation.
The sentence means something like:
- After my wisdom tooth was removed, my gums swelled, so I chew slowly.
In Japanese, the non-past form can mean:
- present
- future
- habitual action
Here it sounds like a present/current habit: because of the swollen gums, the speaker now chews slowly.
If you wanted to emphasize an ongoing action right now, you might also hear 噛んでいます.
Why is the subject I not stated anywhere?
Japanese often leaves out subjects when they are obvious from context.
In this sentence, the person who:
- had the wisdom tooth removed
- has swollen gums
- chews slowly
is naturally understood to be the speaker.
So English needs I, but Japanese does not.
This is one of the most common differences between Japanese and English.
What does ゆっくり do in this sentence?
ゆっくり is an adverb meaning slowly.
It modifies 噛みます:
- ゆっくり噛みます = chew slowly
It is very common to place an adverb directly before the verb it modifies.
Examples:
- ゆっくり食べます = eat slowly
- ゆっくり話します = speak slowly
- ゆっくり噛みます = chew slowly
Why is it 噛みます and not 食べます?
Because the sentence specifically focuses on the act of chewing, not the broader act of eating.
- 食べます = eat
- 噛みます = chew / bite
If your gums are swollen, the painful part is often the chewing itself, so 噛みます is more precise.
Is 歯茎 singular or plural here?
Japanese nouns usually do not mark singular vs. plural clearly unless needed.
So 歯茎 could be understood as:
- gum
- gums
In natural English, gums sounds better here, but Japanese does not need to make that distinction explicitly.
How is 親知らず read, and is it a common word?
It is read おやしらず.
It means wisdom tooth. It is a very common everyday word.
Literally, it is an interesting expression:
- 親 = parent
- 知らず = not knowing
The idea is that it comes in when someone is older, at an age when the parent may not know about it directly. But for learners, the important thing is simply:
- 親知らず = wisdom tooth
Is 抜いた saying that the speaker pulled out the tooth themselves?
Not necessarily.
Japanese often uses a transitive verb like 抜く in a way that can also cover situations where the action was done to you, especially when the context makes it obvious.
So 親知らずを抜いた can often be understood naturally as:
- I had my wisdom tooth pulled
- My wisdom tooth was removed
If you want to make it extra explicit that someone else did it, you could say something like:
- 親知らずを抜いてもらった = I had someone pull my wisdom tooth out for me
But the original sentence is still very natural.
Is this sentence polite?
Yes, it is mixed in a very normal way.
- 抜いた
- 腫れた
- ので
These are plain forms used inside the sentence.
- 噛みます
This is polite -ます form at the end.
Japanese often does this:
- plain forms in subordinate clauses
- polite form at the sentence end
So the sentence is polite overall and sounds natural in standard conversation.
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