Struggling to parse a specific sentence


From a Bunpro grammar exercise regarding the "-がち" grammar point.

それは初心者にありがちのミスですね。

The given translation is: "That is a mistake beginners tend to make."

If the sentence were:

それは初心者のミスですね。i.e. "That is a beginner's mistake.", that makes perfect sense to
me. But the addition of the にありがち after the 初心者 really throws me off. Bunpro
just taught me that the "-がち" mean "to be prone to", "to tend to", so if I
were to very literally translate the original it would be:

"That, mistake of tends to exist for beginner, is."

Is that the correct way of thinking about it? Is the に really indicating
something like "for"?




がち indicates a tendency. So, ありがち suggests a tendency for the existence of
something. So, ありがちのミス means a "mistake that has a tendency to be made". に is
often used in this manner to show the locus of what's being talked about.

You could translate this as "for", but approaching it this way will eventually
catch you up. Just learn to recognize this usage for what it is and not try to
translate it literally.

The first translation you gave, "This is a mistake which beginners tend to
make" is correct.




がち indicates a tendency. So, ありがち suggests a tendency for the existence of
something. So, ありがちのミス means a "mistake that has a tendency to be made". に is
often used in this manner to show the locus of what's being talked about.

You could translate this as "for", but approaching it this way will eventually
catch you up. Just learn to recognize this usage for what it is and not try to
translate it literally.

The first translation you gave, "This is a mistake which beginners tend to
make" is correct.

