ものがある details
fun + there is a real X about it — the speaker senses a quality without spelling out why
tanoshii mono ga aru
there is a real X about it — the speaker senses a quality without spelling out why
彼の演技には独特なものがある。
kare no engi ni wa dokutoku na mono ga aru.
There's something distinctive about his acting. neutral
彼の言い訳、なんか苦しいものがあるよね。
kare no iiwake, nanka kurushii mono ga aru yo ne.
His excuse has something kind of forced about it, doesn't it. casual
- i-adjective
- na-adjective
- formal
- past
- polite
Examples
there's a real X about it — an impression or quality the speaker senses in someone or something, without spelling out the full reasoning
彼の演技には独特なものがある。
kare no engi ni wa dokutoku na mono ga aru.
There's something distinctive about his acting. neutral
彼の言い訳、なんか苦しいものがあるよね。
kare no iiwake, nanka kurushii mono ga aru yo ne.
His excuse has something kind of forced about it, doesn't it. casual
彼女の描く絵には見る人の心を打つものがある。
kanojo no egaku e ni wa miru hito no kokoro o utsu mono ga aru.
There is something in the pictures she paints that strikes the hearts of those who see them. neutral
今回のご提案には検討に値するものがございます。
konkai no go teian ni wa kentou ni atai suru mono ga gozaimasu.
There is something in this proposal that is worth close examination. formal
Formation
{I}ものがあるattaches to i-adjective{NA-stem}なものがあるattaches to na-adjectiveplain clause (a verb phrase naming an effect on the observer) + ものがあるattaches to plain clause
Variant notes
- ものがございます — ある keigos to ございます — 検討に値するものがございます.
Notes
seeing") is fine as a plain negated existential, but it is not the
productive negative counterpart of this pattern the way がない mirrors
many がある frames.
Related patterns
Similar
ような気がする hedges the speaker's own uncertain impression about anything and stays fully tentative (財布を忘れたような気がする); ものがある asserts, without hedging, that a real quality sits in the thing under discussion — swapping the two turns a guess about the world into an unhedged verdict on it.
Lookalikes
Both close on もの, but the predicate decides everything — ものだ's general-truth sense states a NORM true of people or things in general (人は誰でも間違えるものだ), while ものがある points at ONE specific thing under discussion and asserts a quality just in that case (彼の絵には人を引きつけるものがある).
ものの is a subordinating connective that leaves its clause hanging for a contrastive main clause to follow (安いものの、質はいまいちだ); ものがある is itself the main predicate and needs nothing after it.
Same もの root, opposite stance — ものか denies a proposition outright with heat (二度と行くものか), while ものがある quietly affirms that a quality is present; hearing the emphatic denial of ものか inside ものがある reverses the sentence's point.
ものだから packages a finite clause as an excuse for something already done and always needs an antecedent clause before it (電車が遅れたものだから、遅刻した); ものがある is not a connective — it attaches directly to the one adjective or clause it describes and needs nothing to follow.
Bare もの／もん answers an objection sentence-finally, spoken only outside the formal ですもの variant, with no ある (「だって眠いんだもん」); ものがある is register-neutral to formal and states a quality rather than excusing anything — もん never takes が, and ものがある never trails a petulant protest.
Same meaning
there's something about it
no other patterns in this meaning class yet