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できることが僕にある

This sounds like "the things I can do is in me", which doesn't makes sense. Translation tells me it actually means "I can do something". Why is に used rather than が? What rule does this に follow? I haven't seen this kind of に anywhere so far (with my limited japanese). Also what is the difference in using に and が here?

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  • https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/68328/why-is-%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8-used-in-%E7%A7%81%E3%81%AB%E4%BD%95%E3%81%8B%E3%81%A7%E3%81%8D%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8 This is related, the に or には makes the sentence mean "There are things I can do", but I wouldn't know the difference between just 僕は and 僕に or 僕には – OtheJared Apr 18 '20 at 05:02
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    Does this answer your question? [が and に interchangeability and difference in meaning](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/4440/%e3%81%8c-and-%e3%81%ab-interchangeability-and-difference-in-meaning) – user3856370 Apr 18 '20 at 09:38

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できることが僕にある

This sounds like "the things I can do is in me", which doesn't makes sense.

This is the second time I've seen you post a question where you insist that Japanese に must correspond exactly to English "in", then claim confusion. The origin of the confusion is in your insistence on translating に only into "in".

Translation tells me it actually means "I can do something".

You can translate it as "There are things which I can do" and here the "there are" corresponds to にある in the Japanese. You could actually think of it as "In me there are things I can do" if it helps you to understand, but of course the English is far from natural.

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