だれでも楽しむ corrected to だれもが楽しむ. Why?


A Japanese learner I know had written a sentence that contained the phrase
「日本の文化は **だれでも** 楽しむものじゃないか？」, however this was corrected to 「日本の文化は **だれもが**
楽しむものじゃないか？」 by a native speaker. Based on the explanations about 疑問詞
elsewhere on this site (such as
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/17697/%e3%81%a9%e3%81%93%e3%81%a7%e3%82%82%e3%81%82%e3%82%8b-%e3%81%a8-%e3%81%a9%e3%81%93%e3%81%ab%e3%82%82%e3%81%82%e3%82%8b-%e3%81%ae%e4%bd%bf%e3%81%84%e5%88%86%e3%81%91/17700#17700),
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/30451/difference-
between-%e4%bd%95%e3%82%82-and-%e4%bd%95%e3%81%a7%e3%82%82/30462#30462) or
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/16058/chart-for-
interrogative-words)), I'm confused why だれもが is right but だれでも is wrong.

I'm trying to rationalize it based on English translations:

だれでも楽しむ = "Anyone enjoys". Sounds a bit awkward.

だれもが楽しむ = "Everyone enjoys". This sounds more natural. But why is the が a
requirement?

だれでも楽しめる・だれもが楽しめる = "Anyone can enjoy" / "Everyone can enjoy". Both of these
sound natural in English. Is either one also OK in Japanese? Is the が in だれもが
a requirement here?

What are the rules here?




だれでも means だれであっても, which denies something is limited to a particular person
or a particular group of people. It’s “anyone” in that sense. A more literal
translation would be “regardless of who it is”. It goes well with a verb that
expresses potentiality (“anyone can …”) or one that describes a volitional
action, or something people choose to do under specific circumstances (“anyone
would …”). だれでも楽しめる sounds natural because 楽しめる expresses potentiality,
whereas だれでも楽しむ doesn’t because 楽しむ is not a volitional action, at least not
in this context.

だれもが simply means 皆が. It includes “everyone” directly, not by denying
limitedness. This makes both だれもが楽しめる and だれもが楽しむ natural.




I think you are an advanced learner of Japanese. This will be the reason why
your teacher corrected 「日本の文化はだれでも楽しむものじゃないか？」to 「日本の文化はだれもが楽しむものじゃないか？」. It
seems to me that even if the former sentence sounds a little awkward, it
cannot be said to be grammatically wrong. And the phrases of だれでも楽しめる and
だれもが楽しめる are grammatical and both sound quite natural. It will be helpful to
cite another similar sentence (3). This is ungrammatical because だれも (without
が) is usually followed by a negative predicate like in (4).

  1. 日本の文化は、 **だれでも** 楽しむものである。(just a little awkward)
  2. 日本の文化は、 **だれもが** 楽しむものである。(natural)
  3. 日本の文化は、 **だれも** 楽しむものである。(ungrammatical)
  4. 日本の文化は、 **だれも** 楽しむもので **ない** 。(grammatical)

In short, in this sentence が is a requirement to express the subject of a
sentence.

