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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:56 pm
gomen nasai for asking but how do you know what the subject of a sentence is, i mean i kinda got it but not really also it is very confusing when the word I is in the sentence so it is hard to tell if I is the subject or something else like
i want to go to Japan
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:31 pm
In a fully structured sentence, the subject is usually at the beginning of the sentence.
れい)ぼくのなまえはアル Rei) boku no namae wa ARU Me [possessive] name ["topic marker"] Aru. Ex.) My name is Aru.
In that case, the subject was the phrase "My name".
れい)こじろうさんはほんをよんでいる。 Rei) kojirou-san wa hon o yondeiru Kojirou-san ["topic marker"] book ["direct object marker"] read-te conjugation [-ing] Kojirou-san is reading a book.
The subject was Kojirou-san.
For your example "I want to go to Japan", it can be this:
ぼくはにほんがいきたい。 boku wa nihon ga ikitai
Or this: にほんがいきたい。 nihon ga ikitai
In most situations, the subject can be understood through context and is, most of the time, omitted. In fact:
たべた。 tabeta Lit. "Ate."
and
みずをのんだ mizu o nonda Lit. "Drank water."
are considered complete sentences in Japanese. As long as there is a verb at the end, even though the verb may not actually be there (as in most cases where a sentence would politely end in です), that is considered a normal sentence in Japanese.
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:18 pm
Arigatou gozaimasu for the info but i cant read japanese yet i am learning how to speak it first then how to read it
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:45 am
me too sorry could you translate that eek
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:08 pm
[Check the edit on my first post] Corrected some sentences and romanized for the beginners.
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