Particle Use with 注射する


(1) 人に薬を注射する。

(2) 人を薬で注射する。

(3) 人に薬で注射する。

A survey of sentences tells me that (1) is certainly grammatical, but (2) &
(3) do not occur (At least in the ones I looked at). Both in English and
Croatian, structures analogous to (1) & (2) are grammatical ("Inject Y with
X", "Inject Y into X"), but (3) is not.

I'm wondering whether this pattern holds in Japanese as well, even though I
couldn't find any examples, and if there are other verbs with similar
behavior.




注射する works just like あげる ("to give"), わたす ("to pass"), 見せる ("to show") and so
on. It almost never takes a person as a direct object in Japanese.

  * 彼に見せる to show [something] to him
  * 彼を見せる to show him (his picture, etc.) [to someone]
  * 彼女に注射する to inject [something] to her
  * ?彼女を注射する to inject her [into someone]  
(This is almost always nonsense, but acceptable when "her" refers to [Ms. Red
Blood Cell](https://cellsatwork.fandom.com/wiki/AE3803).)

When で is present, it marks an injecting device (e.g., プラスチックのシリンジで注射する) or a
method (e.g., ボーラスで注射する).

The usages and the transitivity of a verb is not always preserved across
languages. See [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/72206/5010) for
more examples.




注射する works just like あげる ("to give"), わたす ("to pass"), 見せる ("to show") and so
on. It almost never takes a person as a direct object in Japanese.

  * 彼に見せる to show [something] to him
  * 彼を見せる to show him (his picture, etc.) [to someone]
  * 彼女に注射する to inject [something] to her
  * ?彼女を注射する to inject her [into someone]  
(This is almost always nonsense, but acceptable when "her" refers to [Ms. Red
Blood Cell](https://cellsatwork.fandom.com/wiki/AE3803).)

When で is present, it marks an injecting device (e.g., プラスチックのシリンジで注射する) or a
method (e.g., ボーラスで注射する).

The usages and the transitivity of a verb is not always preserved across
languages. See [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/72206/5010) for
more examples.

