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天が抜ける
あまがぬける
1. [exp,v1]
▶ the skies open up
▶ to rain cats and dogs

Conjugations


History:
10. A 2018-06-21 07:24:33  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
9. A* 2018-06-17 08:20:33  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I agree that "for" shouldn't be mandated in every single [exp,verb] entry, but I do like it in general because I'm really a big fan of 
consistency. Was the particular usage here really "clumsy"? To me, "for the skies to open up" looks natural and better than "the skies 
open up".

I think I'm fine with mixing inf/non-inf glosses, on the other hand.
8. A 2018-06-17 05:52:10  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
For expressions of the form A が B-verb I don't thing there's any to make it an infinitive verb form. I don't think the "for .." approach should be mandated; sometimes it's rather clumsy. Whatever works, makes sense, etc. can be used.
7. A* 2018-06-15 16:13:50  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
How should we format glosses for expressions like this (that have a subject)?
I'm not a fan of starting a gloss with "for ..." when it's impractical/impossible to use the infinitive marker.
Is this better? And is it OK to mix infinitive glosses with non-infinitive glosses?
  Diff:
@@ -13 +13 @@
-<gloss>for the skies to open up</gloss>
+<gloss>the skies open up</gloss>
6. A 2018-06-15 11:05:16  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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