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> 彼女には心配事がない。

What is this _ni_ in this phrase?
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particle-に possession
彼女には心配事がない。why there is に?
に means "to" or "for" and in this case 彼女には has the sense of "In her case" or
"as for her" but can simply be translated as "she has" (or rather "doesn't
have", since it ends with a negative).
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There is an interesting explanation for this use of には included in the
following Imabi link.

[第167課: が VS を ](http://www.imabi.net/gavswo.htm)

I've not heard this explanation anywhere before and thought I would paraphrase
it and get the community's opinion. It doesn't seem to be commonly held (and
is perhaps incorrect?) but it seems to be backed up with actual data.

The author of the site begins his explanation by defining a class of verbs
that he calls "stative-transitive" verbs. An in depth explanation of this
class is here [第21課: The Particle Ga が II: The Object Marker Ga が
](http://www.imabi.net/theparticlegaii.htm).

He describes "stative-transitive" verbs as verbs that describe a state but
have a direct object (he takes a rather loose meaning of "direct object" and
pretty much extends it to any argument that a verb or predicate complement
requires to make sense). He goes on to say that usually, these types of verbs
that describe states but require objects are considered transitive verbs or
adjectives in English and the analogous verbs in Japanese are considered
intransitive or are adjectives.

Examples to illustrate the point are English verbs like "to have", "to like",
"to know", "to want to do something" which are all transitive in English while
their Japanese counterparts,「いる/ある」「好きだ」「わかる」「したい」are not.

His main purpose in his argument is that he believes it is more appropriate to
consider this a special class of verbs in which the semantic object is marked
with が. He includes the following table that shows には is often used to mark
the semantic subject of stative-transitive verbs when the object is marked
with が.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mxD9y.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mxD9y.png)

So for your specific example,

彼女には心配事がない = She has no worries.

The ない would be considered stative-transitive because it describes a state but
requires an object. 心配事 would be considered the semantic object (marked by が)
of the stative-transitive verb and 彼女 the semantic subject (marked by には). It
would have presumably been acceptable to have just used は but it seems that
including に in these types of cases is about 3 times more likely.
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The role of 「 **A には** _B_ 」 is to _pinpoint_ the location of _B_ **at A**.
Let's compare a direct translation alongside a version with natural sounding
English:

  * Direct translation: " **As for (with/at/to) her** , _there aren't any worries_ "
  * Natural English: "She has no worries."

The more example sentences you read that use 「には」, the more familiar and
natural this will become. Here's another example:

  * 「 **彼には** 弟さんがいます。」"He has a younger brother." (Lit. " **At/To him** , _there is a younger brother_.")
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