Use of 抱く in "聞かせていただいてありがとうございました"


In my textbook the sentence:

> 聞かせていただいてありがとうございました

is translated as

"Thank you for telling us about all these things"

I know:

  * 色々 is "various" so probably means "all these things"
  * 聞かせていた means "Letting me hear"
  * But 抱く, here 抱いて, means "embrace"?

I'm not really sure how to understand this. Is it simply an expression? Any
help would be appreciated.




You're not parsing the sentence correctly, I'm afraid.

> 聞かせていただいてありがとうございました。

It's 聞かせて+[頂]{いただ}いて, not 聞かせていた+抱いて.

いただいて is the て form of いただく, which is the humble form of もらう.

These threads might be of help:

  * [Difference between くださって and いただいて and when you should use it](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/29752/9831)
  * [How do you (not using keigo) thank someone for giving you permission to do something?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/38801/9831)
  * [Confused about ～させていただきたいと思います](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/54344/9831)
  * [Is it ok to use ～て下さりました instead of ～ていただきました?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/402/9831)




You're not parsing the sentence correctly, I'm afraid.

> 聞かせていただいてありがとうございました。

It's 聞かせて+[頂]{いただ}いて, not 聞かせていた+抱いて.

いただいて is the て form of いただく, which is the humble form of もらう.

These threads might be of help:

  * [Difference between くださって and いただいて and when you should use it](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/29752/9831)
  * [How do you (not using keigo) thank someone for giving you permission to do something?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/38801/9831)
  * [Confused about ～させていただきたいと思います](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/54344/9831)
  * [Is it ok to use ～て下さりました instead of ～ていただきました?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/402/9831)

