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I would prefer (doing) B over A
A is often a negative/undesirable action/result such that the subject would rather do B.
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納 豆 を 食 べ る く ら い な ら 、 草 を 食 べ た 方 が ま し だ 。 
I'd prefer having weeds before eating natto.
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ブランド 品 を 買 う く ら い な ら 貯 金 し た 方 が ま し だ な 。 
I'd rather save my money than buy brand-name goods.

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Stupie
Level: 86
(9 months ago)

くらいなら／ぐらいなら　~　V လုပ်ရမှာထက်စာရင်

  • ဝါကျ ၂ ကြောင်းရဲ့အလယ်မှာသုံး (အရှေ့ကခြေနေ လုပ်ရမှာထက်စာရင် နောက်ကခြေနေ လုပ်ရတာက ကောင်းဦးမယ်)

နှိုးရမှာထက်စာရင် ကျားမြှီးပြေးဆွဲတာမှကောင်းဦးမယ်

ဆေးသောက်ရမှာထက်စာရင်ဆေးထိုးရတာမှကောင်းဦးမယ်

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レイナ
Level: 1
(12 years ago)
増し→まし - kanji not needed.
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Discussion about this grammar
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Khana
Level: 1

Hi,


1) User's sentences often miss "の". Is there a specific reason ?


2) By the way, this structure seams to be used only to express speaker's thoughts. "I would / I rather"...

Can we use the same construction to express another person's thoughts ?


Something like :


3rd person + は + A action + くらい/ぐらい + なら + B alternative + のほうがまし + something expression other thoughts でしょう / という / そう

しずかさんはあんな男と結婚するくらいなら死んだほうがましでしょう。



3) I found sentences on the net with the structure : A action + くらい/ぐらい + なら + B alternative + ほうがいい。

It seems to have the same meaning.

このお金を彼に上げるくらいなら、捨てたほうがいい。I may as well throw the money away as give it to him.


What is the difference ? Are they interchangeable ?

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8 years ago
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YariAshigaru
Level: 1

For your 3rd question, they are the same and can be used interchangeably.

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8 years ago
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