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JLPT N3 grammar · Chapter 6

~に対して・~に対する (target)

Direct an action or attitude toward someone or something

You’ll be able to identify the person or thing that receives an action, feeling, or attitude.

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芽衣めいは、年上としうえの人ひとに対たいしていつも礼儀れいぎ正ただしいです。

mei wa, toshiue no hito ni taishite itsumo reigitadashii desu.

What do you think this sentence means?

Mei is always polite toward people older than her.

Why it means that

Toward a person or target

~に対たいして means “toward” or “with respect to.” It marks the target that receives an action, attitude, feeling, or response.

Examples

彼かれはだれに対たいしても優やさしいです。

kare wa dare ni taishite mo yasashii desu.

He is kind to everyone.

質問しつもんに対たいする答こたえを書かいてください。

shitsumon ni taisuru kotae o kaite kudasai.

Please write your answers to the questions.

How it is built

Choose the form by what follows

Use noun + に対たいして before a verb or clause. Use noun + に対たいする directly before another noun, as in お客きゃくさんに対たいするサービス (“service for customers”).

target noun+に対して+verb or attitude/target noun+に対する+noun
Example

先生せんせいに対たいする質問しつもんがあります。

sensei ni taisuru shitsumon ga arimasu.

I have a question for the teacher.

Examples

先週せんしゅう送おくったメールに対たいする返事へんじが、まだ来こない。

senshuu okutta meeru ni taisuru henji ga, mada konai.

I still haven’t received a reply to the email I sent last week.

電車でんしゃの中なかで騒さわぐ子こどもに対たいして、注意ちゅういする大人おとなが少すくなくなった。

densha no naka de sawagu kodomo ni taishite, chuui suru otona ga sukunaku natta.

Fewer adults now tell off children who make noise on the train.

一度いちど海うみでおぼれてから、水みずに対たいする怖こわさがなかなか消きえない。

ichido umi de oborete kara, mizu ni taisuru kowasa ga nakanaka kienai.

Ever since I nearly drowned in the sea, my fear of water just won’t go away.

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