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がする details

がする

there is a sound, a smell, a sensation — an impression that arrives with nobody producing it

ねえ、なんかくさにおいがしない?

nee, nanka kogekusai nioi ga shinai?

Hey, can't you smell something burning? casual

さっきから、台所だいどころほうからへんおとがしています。

sakki kara, daidokoro no hou kara hen na oto ga shite imasu.

There has been a strange noise from the kitchen for a while now. neutral

  • past
  • polite
  • polite past
  • negative

Examples

there is a sound, a smell, a taste — an impression the speaker registers, with nobody made responsible for it

ねえ、なんかくさにおいがしない?

nee, nanka kogekusai nioi ga shinai?

Hey, can't you smell something burning? casual

さっきから、台所だいどころほうからへんおとがしています。

sakki kara, daidokoro no hou kara hen na oto ga shite imasu.

There has been a strange noise from the kitchen for a while now. neutral

このスープ、すこあまあじがしますね。

kono suupu, sukoshi amai aji ga shimasu ne.

This soup tastes a little sweet, doesn't it. neutral

客室きゃくしつでは、ほのかにひのきかおりがいたします。

kyakushitsu de wa, honoka ni hinoki no kaori ga itashimasu.

In the guest rooms there is a faint scent of cypress. formal

Formation

Notes

Hearing, smell and taste take it; sight does not — ×ひかりがする,
×いろがする — and pain goes to いたみがある instead.

Related patterns

Similar

  • ようながする hedges an impression the speaker cannot back up and needs a whole clause in front of it; がする takes a bare sense word and reports what the senses caught — おとがした claims a sound was there, おとがしたようながした concedes it may not have been.

Lookalikes

  • One particle apart on the same する — がする has no one performing it, where にする is somebody's choice, so しずかにする is an instruction to a person and おとがする reports an event nobody is credited with.