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What is the general syntax of Japanese? (in romaji) [closed]
In English we're taught that sentence structure is subject/verb, is this the same (or somewhat the same) in Japanese? Do they have subject/verb, or some other structure that would seem totally bizarre ...
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Double subject construction?
I've recently been having trouble with constructions that seem to mark two subjects in the same clause. I've only encountered them in ～の方が... constructions, but I can't seem to make sense of them ...
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Does subject marker が always have to be before the conjugated verb?
むかし、 むかし、 ある ところ に おじいさん と おばあさん が いました。
Here's what I got so far:
(adv. time), (adv. time), (to be - infinitive) (somewhere) (ni particle), (old man) (to - conjunction) (old woman) (ga subject ...
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の versus が used to mark the subject of an appositive clause?
A friend of mine wrote this sentence in Japanese:
彼女のどんな困難からも逃げない態度を尊敬しています。
'Her attitude of not running away from any hardships is something I respect.'
'I respect that she has this attitude ...
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Subject following verb?
I'm translating bits of Hyrule Historia to test myself a bit and I'm a little confused by this sentence structure.
お面を使うリンク
I'm inclined to say this translates to something along the lines of:
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Can things hope?
This sentence in my JLPT book is explaining the nuance of 映{は}える, but actually it's the use of ほしい that's a puzzling me a bit:
このピンクのスカーフが映{は}える服{ふく}を選{えら}んでほしい。
This is saying that the pink ...
