彼の突然の死に、悲しみを___。
Hint: cannot help feeling sadness
- Translation
- I cannot help but feel sadness at his sudden death.
- Grammar point
- N1: ~を禁じえない
- Explanation
- ~を禁じえない expresses that a certain emotion inevitably arises. Used with negative emotions in formal writing. Attaches to noun+を.
- Study tip
- Use 禁じえない when the sentence needs "that a certain emotion inevitably arises". Check the phrase before ___ and the relationship between the two clauses.