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Particle
| A marker which indicates emphasis. | Even; as many/much/long/...as; (not) even (one); (not) any |
(ksa). グレーさんはこんな難しい漢字も読める・読めます。/ハリスさんはこんな易しい漢字も読めない・読めません。
Mr. Gray can read even difficult kanji like this./ Mr. Harris cannot read even easy kanji like this.
(ksb). 私は漢字を八千も知っている・います。
I know as many as eight thousand kanji.
(ksc). 私は漢字を一つも知らない・知りません。
I don't know even one kanji.
(ksd). 私は何も食べなかった・食べませんでした。
I didn't eat anything.
(kse). ナンシーは私の話を聞きもしない・しません。
Nancy doesn't even listen to me.
| (i)Quantifier | も | |
| 五十も | As many as fifty | |
| 百人も | As many as a hundred people | |
| (ii)One Counter | も | |
| 一人も | (not) even one person | |
| 一つも | (not) even one~ | |
| (iii)WH-word | も | |
| 何も | (not) anything | |
| 誰も | (not) anybody | |
| (iv)Vます | もしない | |
| 話しもしない | Don't even talk | |
| 食べもしない | Don't even eat |
(a). 春男は一年生の足し算もまともに出来ない。
Haruo cannot do even the first-year addition correctly.
(b). 今日は車が十台も売れた。
As many as ten cars sold today.
(c). そのパーティーには女の子は一人も来なかった。
Not even one girl came to the party.
(d). 誰もそのことを知りません。
Nobody knows about it.
(e). 私は木村さんが呉れた本をまだ見もしていない。
I haven't even seen the book Mr. Kimura gave me yet.
1. も as an emphatic marker is an extended use of も1. (⇨ も1) The following examples show the transition of meaning from the original idea 'also' to the emphatic use 'even'
2. 何も and 誰も are used only in negative sentences. Other Interrogative words with も can be used in both affirmative sentences and negative sentences.
Note the following examples:
3. Verbますも is always followed by a negative form of する 'do' as in Key Sentence (E) and Example (e).