How to use nested causative? I want to exaggerate my previous question by nesting one more causative action. Assume that there are a policeman, a girl with her dog, and a snatcher on the street. The dog belongs to the girl. # Question How do I express the following sentence in Japanese? Is my sentence below correct? > I want the policeman to make the girl make her dog bite the snatcher. > > > > \------- > > \------------

Nesting is not really common:

> * (1) (OK, simple)
> * (2) (?) (may not be wrong, but very hard to understand)
> * (3) (*) (almost gibberish)
>


An easy and natural way is to use **()** (≒"so that ") and say like this:

> * (4)
> * (5)
> * (6)
> (using no causative / at all. It's obvious that is saying something not the but to the , so this should be enough)
>


It's much harder for me to translate this without using .

> * (7) (?)
> (using (2) above, but even harder to understand)
> * (8) (?)
>


The last one is the closest to your translation attempt, but isn't not common in the first place.

Note that can be used only for the speaker's own desire.