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I always see this sentence being used. Like **忘れようとしてします** or **毎日勉強しようとしてする**
I'm just wondering what is the difference if I use **忘れる** or **勉強する**
instead. Whenever I watch anime or JDrama I always here this pattern. Can
someone enlighten me?
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～しよう＋としてします。 What is the meaning of this expression?
The difference between, for example, 勉強しようとする and 勉強する is simply the
difference between "to try to study/to be about to study/to get down to
studying" (depending on the context) and "to study."

As for the construction しようとしてする, I found a couple of examples on Twitter:
"おやすみってツイートしようとしてする前に寝てた" and "恋はしようとしてするもんじゃない恋は落ちるもの." However, in these,
しようとしてする cannot be taken as a single lexical unit. The first one has a break
between the しよう and the する ("I **was about to** (しようとして) tweet goodnight, but
fell asleep before **doing so** (する)." And in the second one, するもの means that
love is "a thing to do" (するもの) that cannot be a "try to/be about to/get down
to doing" (しようとして) "thing to do." I.e., the しようとして is like an adjective that
describes (or, in the tweeter's mind, shouldn't be allowed to describe) the
するもの. In other words, there's no half-assing about with love - you fall in or
you don't.
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