Re: I need some help from native speakers of Japanese

muchan wrote:
I wrote:

Bart Mathias wrote:


*Where do you think so because he went t?


This hardly takes a native speaker.

(kare-wa doko-e itta-kara) soo omou-no-desu-ka
(he-top where-to went-because) so think-that-is-int

is a perfectly understandable sentence (I'd prefer "kare-ga," but I'm
sort of following Cindy here).

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Sorry, but I would put '*' in front of this Japanese sentese...
* kare-wa doko-e itta-kara soo omou-no-desu-ka
* kare-ga doko-e itta-kara soo omou-no-desu-ka

The second one doesn't need "*". I think it's correct.

I'm a bit relieved. That was the one I preferred (but I got the feeling Cindy might have preferred the first, as she had changed my "-ga" to "-wa" in a similar attempt earlier).

Even though your putting "*" in front of those "perfectly understandable sentence[s]" obviously means that I understand Japanese better than native speakers :-) I was feeling kind of sad about it.

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Bart
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