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12-13-2009, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by larpa View Post
hello!

So i will have to write a short paragraph in japanese about my family and I would like to know if the grammar is correct.

Watashi no kazoku wa 4-nin desu. Chichi to haha to imooto to watashi desu. Watashi no kazoku de chichi ga ichiban toshiyori desu. Chichi wa 59-sai desu. Mae chichi ga ichiban takaku nakatta desu. demo ima watashi wa chichi yori takai desu. Haha wa imooto to onaji gurai takai desu. Imooto no namae wa Laura-san desu. Imooto wa Helsinki ni imasu. Chichi to haha wa Tampere ni imasu.

Thank you in advance.
Can you not type in Japanese? There is a thread on how to set it up on this forum near the top.

1. You don't need to use "wata(ku)shi" as much as you do. Japanese avoid pronouns a lot. I can't say about Finnish, knowing only the word "Suomi" in the language, but in Japanese they aren't that important. For example, sentence #1 should just be 家族は4人です。 No need for 私 at all.

2. When saying "out of all of my family, my X is tallest" you would say 家族の中で not 家族で.

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