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Q: You are living in richness, so you can't understand what people have to suffer when living in poorness. この表現は自然ですか?
A: You should definitely change "poorness" to "poverty," and should maybe change "richness" to wealth.

"To suffer" is an intransitive verb, meaning that "someone suffers" is valid, but "someone suffers something" is not. In you sentence, you use a subordinate clause beginning with "what." Your clause is sometimes called a fused subordinate clause because "what" can be regarded as a fusion of "that which." That makes the sentence ​​"You are living in richness, so you can't understand that which people have to suffer when living in poverty" identical in meaning to yours. Breaking the sentence into these parts allows us to analyze it further. Not we have a subordinate clause beginning with "which" with "that" as the antecedent. The antecedent is the object of the verb in the subordinate clause, for example in "I made the cake that you ate," "the cake" is the antecedent because it is being eaten. In your sentence however, the verb is "to suffer," which as I said is intransitive, so it cannot have an object, and therefore this sentence is incorrect.

One way to fix this would be to use the preposition "through." "​​You are living in richness, so you can't understand that through which people have to suffer when living in poverty. " or ​​"You are living in richness, so you can't understand what people have to suffer through when living in poverty." The latter is more colloquial, the first sounds quite proper, but is more correct, maybe. http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/prepositions/Ending-a-Sentence-with-a-Preposition.html
By doing this, the antecedent would follow the pronoun, creating an adverbial phrase rather that an object, and all verbs can have adverbs.

You could also change "what" to "how." How could be regarded as a fusion of "the way that," where "the way" represents an adverb rather than a noun.

I hope this makes sense :)

P.S. there is a transitive definition of suffer, but yours would be interpreted as the intransitive one. http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/suffer

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