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Originally Posted by tandakku
I'm a first year (or semester) learning Japanese. The structure is confusing me- it's so different from English.
An adjective in a Japanese sentence, like for a sentence like this:
That duck is pretty.
Would be:
Sore ahiru kirei desu.
Or: Sore Kirei na ahiru imasu.
See? I have it all messed up.  |
You're not too messed up.
The first one sounds like "There, duck, it's pretty." The second sounds like "There, there is a pretty duck."
Both are missing particles, but both are acceptable uses of adjectives.
ホラ、アヒルはきれいです。Look, the duck is pretty.
それはきれいなアヒルです。That is a pretty duck.