| Author | Message | ||
     Kaminari |
how do you make sentences with 2 verbs??? that's really confusing to me | ||
| Mr. Anonymous |
Well... what do you mean? "I think that you said ..."? That kind of thing? Those are called relative clauses... anyway: "I think [that] yuko-san is going to the party." 私は、優子さんがパーティーへ行くと思います。 The と acts as "that" "As for me, yuko-san is going to the party that think" or "I think [that] yuko-san is going to the party" | ||
| Matjlav |
I think he means something like "I run and jump." And I'm pretty sure that's 私は飛ぶ、走る。 | ||
| Mr. Anonymous |
Um, okay. Well... in that case it would be: 私は、走ったり飛んだりする。 This is when you are making a list of verbs ("I do things like running and jumping"). If you want to say something like "I run and [then] jump": 私は、走って飛ぶ。 | ||
| Kaminari |
i also meant sentences like "i have to go to get a book" or "i am going to buy a car" sentences like that... | ||
| Matjlav |
I am going to buy and sell a car: 車を買ったり売ったりしよう I must go get and burn the book: 本を得ったり燃したりしないではいけない Basically, the structure is (verb 1 past)+り+(verb 2 past)+り+する And then use whatever conjugation with する. Of course, you can add as many verbs as you want, but you may want to seperate them with commas if you get more than 2 verbs. Any other questions? | ||
| Mr. Anonymous |
"have to ___" and "is going to ___" are single verbs........ they're just conjugated forms. And, for Matjlav: しよう is like "let's do ___". Here would be some possible corrections to you fine attempt  車を売買します その本を得て燃やさなくてはいけない <past>+り form is used only when saying a list of verbs in the sense of "things like..." If you want to connect verbs to show that one thing happens, and then the other happens... then you use: <verb>て-form + <verb> 文例： 先ず、図書館へ行って、勉強して、家に帰って遊べます。 "First, I should go to the library, study, and then after I get home we can play." | ||
| Matjlav |
Oh, right. "Is going to" is just a variation of "will," so it's just the future tense (and in Japanese, present tense = future tense). So, I will buy a car: 車を買います. "To have to" means "must." To make that, you use: (negative -te form)+は(wa)いけない, (negative imperfect conditional) + ならない, or (negative form) + といけない(です) So, I have to go get a book is: 本を得ないといけないです. | ||
| Kaminari |
what is the reading for that kanji above? it's the blank: hon o _nai to ikenai desu. | ||
| Mr. Anonymous |
It is 得ない or えない or enai. | ||
| Kaminari |
thanks...would you also mind translating: I am going to run or jump. | ||
| Mr. Anonymous |
私は走るか、飛び跳ねます。 |