Particle to use with 跳ね上がる


Today I wanted to express that it hurts when my cat jumps on my stomach, so I
said:

"猫がお腹の上に跳ね上がるとすごく痛い。"

but my friend corrected me to 上で. I asked another friend, who also said で
makes sense. While I understand the difference between で and に, this didn't
make sense to me at first because I thought で should be where the action takes
place, not where the action is resulting. And even if one couldn't use に
directly, I was thinking there should be at least some phrase like に向かって that
could be used. Or maybe 跳ね上がる was the wrong word to use from the start, and I
should have used another word like 飛び上がる. Could anyone enlighten me?




I made a post on HelloTalk to see what people thought. I used the example
sentence, "猫{ねこ}がテーブルの上{うえ}(に・で)跳{は}ね上{あ}がった。" and got quite a few responses.
Here are some of them, translated:

  * "If you use で, it feels like the cat was already on top of the table."
  * "If you use で, it means the cat jumped from the table. に is better."
  * "I think it's に."
  * "テーブルの上に飛{と}び乗{の}った。テーブルの上｛うえ}にピョンと飛{と}び乗{の}った。 I think these are used more often."
  * "テーブルの上に飛{と}び乗{の}ってきた。Perhaps it might depend on the region what people say."

It made me curious that people used 飛{と}び乗{の}る, which is defined by both Jim
Breen's dictionary and Daijirin/Daijisen as jumping onto a moving object, like
a horse or a car. One of the commenters said a lot of people use it this way
too, however.

