Saturday, December 30, 2017

grammar - What is this と?


芸術家は芸術を仕事としている人。



Concerning an artist, it is a person who does art for a living (=as a job).



I didn't encounter と in this kind of function yet, or at least not often enough to remember it. Did I translate this correctly?



Answer





「Noun A + + Noun B + + する」



means:



"to regard A as B"


"to let A be B"


"to treat A as B", etc.



Thus, your translation is not bad at all.


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