Emphasis/contrast

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In module 9 we have

自転車でも学校に行きます。

じてんしゃ で も がっこう に いきます。

Jitensha de mo gakkō ni ikimasu.

(I) also go to school by bike.

 

Does this imply

  1. By bike, I go to school, ‘in addition to other destinations’, 

or 

I go to school by bike ‘as well as by other means of transport’?

 

If ir means the former, then for the latter, would we say

学校に(wa) 自転車でも行きます。

がっこう に (wa) じてんしゃ で も いきます。

Gakkō ni (wa) jitensha de mo ikimasu" ?

 

If so, with or without the wa?

 

 

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こんにちは (Konnichiwa) roketto,
 

Thank you for your question!

 


自転車でも学校に行きます。(Jitensha de mo gakkō ni ikimasu.) implies “I go to school by bike (as well as by other means of transport)." The use of でも (de mo) here means "even with" or "also with," suggesting that biking is one of several modes of transportation used to get to school.

 

To imply “In addition to other destinations, I also go to school by bike,” we would say:

自転車で学校にも行きます。

じてんしゃ で がっこう に も いきます。

Jitensha de gakkō ni mo ikimasu. 

(I) also go to school by bike. 

 

Here, にも (ni mo) “also to" following the destination 学校 (gakkō) “school” indicates that school is one of several locations the speaker visits by bicycle.

 

I hope this helps!

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