other N1 common casualpolitewritten

〜思いをする — to have a ~ experience/feeling

〜思いをする・おもいをする

Meaning

to have a ~ experience / to feel ~ / to go through something ~ — undergo an emotional experience described by the preceding adjective

みんなの前まえで転ころんで、恥はずかしい思おもいをした。

I fell in front of everyone and felt embarrassed.

Attaches to	Form	Example
i-adjective (or na-adj + な) describing a feeling	Adj + 思おもいをする	悲かなしい思おもいをする / 不安ふあんな思おもいをする

When: Frames a felt experience the subject *undergoes*; most often an unpleasant one (painful, embarrassing, frightening).

戦争せんそうで多おおくの人ひとがつらい思おもいをした。

Many people went through painful experiences in the war.

おかげさまで、楽たのしい思おもいをさせてもらいました。

Thanks to you, I got to have a wonderful experience.

Takes an emotion adjective, not a plain event noun: say つらい思おもいをする, not ×「事故じこの思おもいをする」. For a neutral event, use 経験けいけんする.

The causative させる form means 'make someone feel ~': 心配しんぱいな思おもいをさせて、ごめん ('sorry for making you worry').

Jengo shows 〜思いをする the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.

Sources Compiled from published Japanese grammar references.