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Carusan 02-13-2010 02:11 PM

Quick help please!
 
Hello all, first post of probably many!

I was just wondering about a simple grammatical question in Japanese.

How am I to say -

I am going to buy Mr. Davies a Superdry T-Shirt from Ginza.

Would the T-shirt and Superdry be connected with 'no'? And how does one say 'from' when indicating a place, is it simply 'ni'?

Any help would be much appreciated :)

Carusan 02-13-2010 02:22 PM

Haha, Superdry was the only vaguely Japanese brand I could think of at this moment!

Columbine 02-13-2010 02:45 PM

Ok, so the basic sentence "I give Mr Davies a T-shirt" I take it you understand?

私がダビスさんにTシャツをあげる

"I am going to~" is expressed using Vる+つもりです

So: 私がダビスさんにTシャツをあげるつもりです. I'm going to assume you've covered this bit already too.

The problem you're having is with the noun modifying, right? Ie. Modifying "T-shirt" with "Superdry", "buy" and from Ginza". You're right. You need "no" to make it "Superdry T-shirt" so スパドライのTシャツ. "From Ginza" is expressed using から, and then 'buy' needs to be in the past tense to make it "A shirt bought from Ginza": 銀座から買った

Put it all together:
私がダビスさんに銀座から買ったスパドライのTシャツ� �あげるつもりです。
Literally: "I am to Mr Davies a superdry shirt bought from Ginza the act of giving, am planning."
That's probably the most basic way of putting it. It's pretty text-book, so if you want it to sound more natural you'd need to play around with it.

EDIT: Theres some glitch diamonds, so you may need to hit the "quote" button to read everything. >/

kokusaijin 02-13-2010 02:54 PM

Simple
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Carusan (Post 799912)
Hello all, first post of probably many!

I was just wondering about a simple grammatical question in Japanese.

How am I to say -

I am going to buy Mr. Davies a Superdry T-Shirt from Ginza.

Would the T-shirt and Superdry be connected with 'no'? And how does one say 'from' when indicating a place, is it simply 'ni'?

Any help would be much appreciated :)

Just say

Watashiwa Ginza kara Supa- dorai no shatsu wo Davis San ni kao tsumori
desu.

kokusaijin

KyleGoetz 02-13-2010 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kokusaijin (Post 799928)
Just say

Watashiwa Ginza kara Supa- dorai no shatsu wo Davis San ni kao tsumori
desu.

kokusaijin

No. Just no.


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