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Verb (Group 1)
| Someone, something needs something | Need |
(ks). 君達は英和辞典が要る・要ります。
You need an English-Japanese dictionary.
(a). 私は今お金が要る。
I need money now.
(b). 何か道具が要りますか。
Do you need some tools?
(c). この車はガソリンが沢山要る。
This car needs a lot of gas.
1. いる 'need' takes the は～が construction, where the experiencer (that is, the person or thing that needs something) is followed by は and the necessary object by が.
(⇨ ㊦ は～が)
2. いる 'need' is a Group 1 verb; thus, the negative form is いらない, the polite form is いります and the て-form is いって.
3. The experiencer can also take the particle に, as in (1).
4. In subordinate clauses, the experiencer is followed by either が or に, as in (2), unless the sentence is contrastive. (In that case, は follows.)
(⇨ ㊦ は (1))