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Compound sentences
I'm learning a lot of vocab and sentence structures but I want to be able to express more advanced sentences for example. "I went to the camera shop yesterday but didn't find what I wanted" I know the words and particles but am not sure how to connect them.
May 24, 2013 5:18 AM
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Do you read Japanese? You should say:
『昨日、カメラ屋へ行ったけど、欲しいのがなかった』
『昨日 (yesterday) 、カメラ屋へ行ったけど ((I) went to the camera shop but) 、欲しいのがなかった (they didn't have anything (I) want) 』
As you know, we express "When" at first, then "what you did". And you can omit the subject "I" when you talk about your own action.
(I) went (there) but ;
「行ったけど」「行ったんだけど、」are spoken Japanese,「行きましたが」「行ったのですが」are written Japanese and polite for business conversation.
Does this help you?
May 24, 2013
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This is a large topic and cannot be covered here in one answer. Go here:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/
May 24, 2013
thank you!
May 25, 2013
a conjunction
May 25, 2013
That needs a connective, the word for “but” like しかし、だが、けれども、ところが、けど、でも、がetc, and put one of those connectives in the middle between 2 sentences. As already mentioned, 「行ったけど」「行ったが」, and other than that, 「行った。しかし~」「行った。だが、」「行った。でも~」etc.
May 25, 2013
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ローレンス・Lawrence
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