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Sonna hidoi koto wa watashi ni wa iemasen.

I cannot say such a terrible thing.

Ano hito ni wa tomodachi ga imasen.
That person does not have a friend.

Megane o kakete mo chichi ni wa kono ji wa yomemasen.
Even with eyeglasses, my father cannot read
this character.

8.16. … …ba…hodo ‘the more… the

more…’

Sentences like ‘the sooner, the better,’ ‘the more, the

merrier,’ ‘the more I eat fish, the less I like it,’ and ‘the less I
see of him, the better’ are the equivalent of a Japanese
construction involving one verb or adjective given first in

the provisional, then repeated in the plain imperfect + hodo

‘extent, to the extent that,’ followed by the other verb or
adjective in a concluding form:

Benkyō sureba suru hodo wakaranai koto ga

detekimashita.
The more I studied, the more questions I came
up with.