Saturday, April 6, 2013

noun +「とする」、「となる」

We've already discussed

+ となる "to naru"

in a previous post. It means "to become ". Now let's discuss something which I have never seen discussed in any grammar book, the pattern   + とする.

+とする = To consider/define/describe noun A as noun B.

Ex.
彼がもっとも得意としているジャンプです。
He considers this as his specialty jump.

この正方形の一辺の長さをxとする。
Define the length of this side of the square as "x".


Reference:
http://thejapanesepage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16875

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