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Can someone explain the usage of a _na_ -adjective with the を particle?

I cannot understand why we can say

> ほうれん草を嫌いな人もいる。

because I'd thought that it had to be a が or の particle instead of an を.

Also, why can we say

> きみがなぜジャズを嫌いか私にはわからない。

Shouldn't it be きみがなぜジャズが嫌いか私にはわからない?

(Source:
[tatoeba.org](http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/search?query=%E3%82%92%E5%AB%8C%E3%81%84&from=und&to=und))
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grammar particles particle-を na-adjectives
Why are we allowed to use を particle with na-adjectives?
I think it's just a nuance (which I don't understand very well) and that in
some situations, having を (at least for 好き and 嫌い) instead of の or が helps
reading the sentence which may have already too many other の's and が's and be
too ambiguous.
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The answer to this is that generally speaking, **you can't use を with na-
adjectives**. This is not standard usage for most na-adjectives. Additionally,
although Google searches also attest this kind usage for 嫌い (at least), the
Tanaka Corpus is [known to have
errors](http://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/Tanaka_Corpus#Compilation), so
it's best to be careful.

[A google search for
"を嫌い"](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E3%82%92%E5%AB%8C%E3%81%84%22) shows
that the _large_ majority of results, the を is clearly being used with some
other verb, e.g. Xを嫌いになった。 However, in some, it is used in the way you noted,
as in the following example:

>   * Yを嫌いなワケについて語られていた。
>

This を is clearly attached to 嫌い, _not_ 語る. So, back to your question:
**why?** As [@Axioplase's
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/1841/why-are-we-allowed-
to-use-particle-with-na-adjectives/1845#1845) suggests, this is primarily seen
with 好き and 嫌い, and so I argue that the reason you see を with these "na-
adjectives" is that they are derived from the _verbs_ 好く and 嫌う, respectively.
They are both transitive verbs, and as such, accept objects readily. As such,
using を with them in certain circumstances is not odd at all, though it may
seem so when considered primarily as na-adjectives rather than verbs. I
hypothesize that this usage is common with verb-derived na-adjectives, but
_not_ other na-adjectives.
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