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〜から〜にかけて details

Examples

from A through B — the two ends of one stretch, with the event occurring somewhere across it rather than filling it

今夜こんやから明日あすあさにかけて、つよあめるでしょう。

kon'ya kara asu no asa ni kakete, tsuyoi ame ga furu deshou.

Heavy rain is expected from tonight through tomorrow morning. neutral

六月ろくがつから七月しちがつにかけて、このへんはあじさいがきれいだよ。

rokugatsu kara shichigatsu ni kakete, kono hen wa ajisai ga kirei da yo.

From June into July the hydrangeas around here are lovely. casual

関東地方かんとうちほうから東北地方とうほくちほうにかけてのひろ範囲はんいで、つよれを観測かんそくしました。

kantou chihou kara touhoku chihou ni kakete no hiroi han'i de, tsuyoi yure o kansoku shimashita.

Strong shaking was recorded across a wide area from Kanto through Tohoku. formal

Formation

Notes

A is read forward along the continuum, so an intrinsically ordered scale
cannot run backwards — ×五十代ごじゅうだいから二十代にじゅうだいにかけて —
though a cycling one wraps freely (十二月じゅうにがつから一月いちがつ
かけて). Either end may name a region rather than a point.

Related patterns

Similar

  • にわたって asserts the extent is covered in full and takes a single span noun, so it needs no second term (三年さんねんにわたってつづいた); から〜にかけて names both ends and leaves the middle deliberately vague, which is exactly why forecasts and reports prefer it.

Lookalikes

  • から〜まで claims the whole interval is filled and takes one continuous activity (九時くじから五時ごじまではたらく); から〜にかけて names a rough region and says only that the event happens somewhere across it, by degrees or on and off — which is why ×九時くじから五時ごじにかけてはたらく fails where 今夜こんやから明日あすにかけてゆきる does not.

  • Same にかけて, and the は is what changes everything — with から in front it marks a stretch (なつからあきにかけて), with は after it singles out the one field a person is unbeatable in (料理りょうりにかけては); neither reading survives the other's frame.