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Shall we treat [物の怪]{もののけ} (a kind of ghost) as animate or inanimate? Does it
vary for the different ghosts?
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animacy
Is it いる or ある with 物の怪? (Are ghosts animate or inanimate?)
If you do a google search for 幽霊{ゆうれい} and ある you will find many hits with
"いる” instead.
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We can say "物の怪がいる", we don't use ある at all with 物の怪, 幽霊, 妖怪, お化け, and so on.
So I guess we treat them as animate.
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