私にしたから in きっとあんな事を私にしたから


> （……それは、きっとあんな事を私にしたから……）

speaker wants to quit for a good reason but was just given a compliment/great
news that can't be ignored

i look at this as: "that(good result) is definitely because of what i did"

though that requires some gymnastics to get there. A を B に (して) does not seem
to apply, so rearranging as:

私にあんな事をしたから, in certain situation に can be used to mark the cause of something
(「病に倒れる」「日に焼ける」「風にそよぐ」), but not with a direct object and transitive verb and
following it.

Shoehorning this as some variant of ～にすれば, ～にしたら, ～にしてみれば doesn't really fit
either

thanks




This is about such a basic grammar point that I am not entirely sure if I am
reading your question correctly.

> 「私 **が/は** した」 = "I did something."
>
> 「私 **に** した」 = "Someone did something to/for me"

The two phrases above mean completely different things from each other. **In
the second, the subject is unmentioned**. The particles, the shortest- and
simplest-looking words in Japanese, have that kind of power.

> （……それは、きっとあんな事を私 **に** したから……）

therefore, means:

> "That is because (someone) did/has done such a thing to me."

Are you following this? Once again, that "someone" is unmentioned here, but
thanks to the particle 「に」, we know for sure that 「私」 is _**not**_ the action-
taker.

The 「私」 is the indirect object and the 「あんな事」, the direct object.

For this reason, your interpretation:

" **that(good result) is definitely because of what i did** "

is off. It is another person, not the speaker him/herself, who has done あんな事.

Finally, as you said, the expressions ～にすれば, ～にしたら and ～にしてみれば have absolutely
nothing to do with what we are discussing here.




This is about such a basic grammar point that I am not entirely sure if I am
reading your question correctly.

> 「私 **が/は** した」 = "I did something."
>
> 「私 **に** した」 = "Someone did something to/for me"

The two phrases above mean completely different things from each other. **In
the second, the subject is unmentioned**. The particles, the shortest- and
simplest-looking words in Japanese, have that kind of power.

> （……それは、きっとあんな事を私 **に** したから……）

therefore, means:

> "That is because (someone) did/has done such a thing to me."

Are you following this? Once again, that "someone" is unmentioned here, but
thanks to the particle 「に」, we know for sure that 「私」 is _**not**_ the action-
taker.

The 「私」 is the indirect object and the 「あんな事」, the direct object.

For this reason, your interpretation:

" **that(good result) is definitely because of what i did** "

is off. It is another person, not the speaker him/herself, who has done あんな事.

Finally, as you said, the expressions ～にすれば, ～にしたら and ～にしてみれば have absolutely
nothing to do with what we are discussing here.

