Hey folks, ive stumbled across this sentence and was wondering about the usage of どこ in this sentence.Would expect どんなor something like that and was curious if the usage is legit.
Thanks for engagement in advance.
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I’m just curious… what makes it seem strange to you? Is it just that it’s translated to “which” as opposed to “where”?
The sentence itself reads fine to me.
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I think the translation seems off to me. Which instead of where perhaps
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Yeah, the sentence looks fine, but the translation probably needs changing “Which” to “Where”. I think currently many of the vocab sentences’ translations are awaiting human verification. Given there are now so many sentences added to the platform, it may take a while for the team to get to all of them.
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I haven’t got time to write a longer comment currently but without context the translation is correct. Here どこ isn’t asking for the actual location (“where”) but is asking for which/what newspaper company you like. どこ is sometimes used in ways that would be translated as which/what in natural English (自分のどこが好き？自分の好きなところは[どこ]？= what do you like about yourself?).
I believe どれ could also be used instead of どこ in the example sentence. どんな wouldn’t really work here as the meaning would be different and equally you’d expect a noun or noun phrase to follow (e.g., どんな新聞社が好き？）.
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didnt knew that, thanks for clarification. Dictionary didnt show such possible usage neither, and i simply wanted to doublecheck, since どこis an actual common word and i never encounter this way of usage before.
Basically, i only encountered どこas the ‘‘where’’ (concern of location) rather then ‘‘type’’ meaning. Its fine, my dictionary i am using left me doubting, thats all.
Recontextualizing it might make it more clear that it works in English too.
If I find out that you work at a newspaper company and I want to know which one it is I would ask you: “Where do you work?”. I would expect you to answer with the name of the company, not the location of your workplace, right?