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A Japanese learner I know had written a sentence that contained the phrase
「日本の文化は **だれでも** 楽しむものじゃないか？」, however this was corrected to 「日本の文化は **だれもが**
楽しむものじゃないか？」 by a native speaker. Based on the explanations about 疑問詞
elsewhere on this site (such as
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/17697/%e3%81%a9%e3%81%93%e3%81%a7%e3%82%82%e3%81%82%e3%82%8b-%e3%81%a8-%e3%81%a9%e3%81%93%e3%81%ab%e3%82%82%e3%81%82%e3%82%8b-%e3%81%ae%e4%bd%bf%e3%81%84%e5%88%86%e3%81%91/17700#17700),
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/30451/difference-
between-%e4%bd%95%e3%82%82-and-%e4%bd%95%e3%81%a7%e3%82%82/30462#30462) or
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/16058/chart-for-
interrogative-words)), I'm confused why だれもが is right but だれでも is wrong.

I'm trying to rationalize it based on English translations:

だれでも楽しむ = "Anyone enjoys". Sounds a bit awkward.

だれもが楽しむ = "Everyone enjoys". This sounds more natural. But why is the が a
requirement?

だれでも楽しめる・だれもが楽しめる = "Anyone can enjoy" / "Everyone can enjoy". Both of these
sound natural in English. Is either one also OK in Japanese? Is the が in だれもが
a requirement here?

What are the rules here?
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particle-も particle-でも interrogatives
だれでも楽しむ corrected to だれもが楽しむ. Why?
I think you are an advanced learner of Japanese. This will be the reason why
your teacher corrected 「日本の文化はだれでも楽しむものじゃないか？」to 「日本の文化はだれもが楽しむものじゃないか？」. It
seems to me that even if the former sentence sounds a little awkward, it
cannot be said to be grammatically wrong. And the phrases of だれでも楽しめる and
だれもが楽しめる are grammatical and both sound quite natural. It will be helpful to
cite another similar sentence (3). This is ungrammatical because だれも (without
が) is usually followed by a negative predicate like in (4).

  1. 日本の文化は、 **だれでも** 楽しむものである。(just a little awkward)
  2. 日本の文化は、 **だれもが** 楽しむものである。(natural)
  3. 日本の文化は、 **だれも** 楽しむものである。(ungrammatical)
  4. 日本の文化は、 **だれも** 楽しむもので **ない** 。(grammatical)

In short, in this sentence が is a requirement to express the subject of a
sentence.
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～でも in だれでも should be equated to であっても "even to be", so だれでも = だれであっても = "no
matter who (s/he) is". Translating it as "anyone" is indeed a clever way, as
it puts stress on that no one is exception. Grammatically, the particle is
under the same category with は and such (取り立て助詞 "focus particle"), so here you
can take it as a sentence adverb.

だれも{HLL} in だれもが is a special pseudo-noun, which obviously derives from
だれも{LHH}. Since the particled phrase だれも, literally "whoever", is only paired
with negation in the modern language, we have had to work out a synonym usable
in a positive sentence, so this weird form has born. Consider it as a special
form of "whoever" in the nominative case.

Now, the intricate portion is the predicate 楽しむもの（じゃないか）. It is not accurate
enough to interpret using the English present tense like "something (one)
enjoys". Japanese present form is by default future-oriented, thus the
strictest reading is "something to enjoy".

With that, if you put だれでも楽しむもの, it will literally yield "something to enjoy,
no matter who (s/he) is". This would be used to tell "everyone should or is
likely to enjoy rather than not" or "everyone should enjoy rather than doing
other things", which is somewhat off the point in this argument. It does not
mean the combination is unnatural, for example you can say:

> 漢字はだれでも習うものじゃないか

On the other hand, だれもが楽しむもの（だ） is "something for whoever to enjoy" (=
something to V + whoever enjoys), which is more neutral in nuance.

However, I don't think だれもが楽しむ is the most natural expression in this case,
because it suggests everyone now does or is going to enjoy (which is a bit too
strong remark unless in a manga circle). In the context (see OP comment), what
the speaker intends is probably that it is open to everyone who wants to
enjoy, that would be:

> だれもが楽しむようなもの  
>  （だれでも／だれもが）楽しめるもの  
>  （だれでも／だれもが）楽しめるようなもの
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だれでも means だれであっても, which denies something is limited to a particular person
or a particular group of people. It’s “anyone” in that sense. A more literal
translation would be “regardless of who it is”. It goes well with a verb that
expresses potentiality (“anyone can …”) or one that describes a volitional
action, or something people choose to do under specific circumstances (“anyone
would …”). だれでも楽しめる sounds natural because 楽しめる expresses potentiality,
whereas だれでも楽しむ doesn’t because 楽しむ is not a volitional action, at least not
in this context.

だれもが simply means 皆が. It includes “everyone” directly, not by denying
limitedness. This makes both だれもが楽しめる and だれもが楽しむ natural.
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