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08-04-2011, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by TwentyPercentCooler View Post
Just so I can be sure is

chichi no kuruma wa nihonsei desu

Literally "father (owns) car (wa) Japan(true) is"? As I said the book I've got at the moment is a bit vague (I'm planning on buying some more books, better suited for self study.)
I'm not sure where "true" comes from in your translation. A somewhat literal translation in the fashion of a linguist would be: my father-POSSESSION car-TOPIC made in japan COPULA.
〜せい means "made in ~."
アメリカ製 made in America
ベトナム製 made in Vietnam
日本製 made in Japan

So "My father's car is made in Japan."
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