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It's been a very long time since I've lived in Japan, and I've just finished the first draft of a story that features a couple of Japanese phrases. Is there anyone here with good Japanese who might be willing to cast an eye over them to see whether I've gotten the verb-subject order in a few phrases I remember from my time there.
Anyone willing to help. There are onlu a half-dosen or so phrases.
Thanks!
go on then...
I'll have a go, what are the phrases?
- Jayne xx
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Unfortunately ...
... I'm unable to help in this because I've got rather a lot on just now ;) I wonder whose fault that is? Well, that and the fact that the only Japanese I know is 'Samurai' or perhaps 'Mikado'.
Robi
My Japanese isn't amazing.
My Japanese isn't perfect but common sentence structures are:
1) Topic > Time > Place > object > verb
   ç§ã€€ã¯ã€€ä»Šæ—¥ã€€å›³æ›¸é¤¨ã€€ã§ã€€æ—¥æœ¬èªžã€€ã‚’ 勉強ã—ã¾ã™ã€‚
2) topic frequency > time > goal > verb
  ç§ã¯ よã     七時ã”ã‚ ã†ã¡ã¸ã€€å¸°ã‚Šã¾ã™ã€‚
Verbs go at the end and subjects, if they're known to the listener, can actually be omitted. Good luck!
nihongo
sorry still haven't passed my first year proficiency test.
Japanese speakers
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