Example sentences
Formation
| (i) Vpotential negativeない | もの(だろう) か | |
| 食べられないもの(だろう) か | Someone wishes to eat something/someone wonders if he could (literally: couldn’t) eat something | |
| (ii) Wh-word+Vinformal past | ものかとV | Where V=verb of thinking |
| どこへ行ったものかと{思う/考える} | Someone things about where he should go | |
| どうしたものか(と){迷う/思案する} | Someone wonders what to do |
