Kaede's thread of practice sentences.

[Sashimister]

Originally Posted by Kaede

One last question, it's great to say 'I like watching movies', but how could i say:

'X is my favourite movie.'

ＸＸＸがわたしのすきなえいがです。

わたしのすきなえいが = my favorite movie
___________

There is a more refined way of saying this but it would belong to Intermidiate, I would suppose.　Just ignore this for now if you wish.

ＸＸＸが（わたしの）おきにいりのえいがです。　= XXX is my favorite movie.

おきにいり（お気に入り） means "favorite" as a noun.

おきにいりの means "favorite" as an adjective.

[Kaede]

Fantastic! Thanks again for your help, Sashimister. That should be enough to keep me occupied for today!

EDIT: ロストインツランスラチオンがおきにいりのえいがです

Haha!

Cheers!

[yuriyuri]

Originally Posted by Kaede

ロストインツランスラチオンがおきにいりのえいがです

This should be ロスト・イン・トランスレーション

You can find out spellings for these things by searching it on wikipedia, then in the left hand menu click on 日本語

So find:
Lost in Translation (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Then click 日本語 to get:
ロスト・イン・トランスレーション - Wikipedia

[Kaede]

Haha! Thanks for the tip, yuriyuri. I was close! (kinda)

[Sashimister]

Originally Posted by Kaede

　
EDIT: ロストインツランスラチオンがおきにいりのえいがです

That would be ロスト・イン・トランスレーション.

(I live near that hotel, by the way....

EDIT: yuriyuri beat me to it.

[Kaede]

Originally Posted by Sashimister

That would be ロスト・イン・トランスレーション.

(I live near that hotel, by the way....

EDIT: yuriyuri beat me to it.

Really? That's cool. I stayed at the Shinjuku Washington when I visited a couple of years ago. Not as nice as the Park Hyatt down the road, but great for my wallet!

[Sashimister]

Originally Posted by Kaede

Really? That's cool. I stayed at the Shinjuku Washington when I visited a couple of years ago. Not as nice as the Park Hyatt down the road, but great for my wallet!

Man, that's where I used to play pachinko!

[Kaede]

Haha! I know the place you mean. I had a curious look round the parlour, but the machines seem completely inaccessible to us Westerners.

The racket those things make is one of those 'Tokyo sounds' I just love though.

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by Sashimister

ＸＸＸがわたしのすきなえいがです。

わたしのすきなえいが = my favorite movie
___________

There is a more refined way of saying this but it would belong to Intermidiate, I would suppose.　Just ignore this for now if you wish.

ＸＸＸが（わたしの）おきにいりのえいがです。　= XXX is my favorite movie.

おきにいり（お気に入り） means "favorite" as a noun.

おきにいりの means "favorite" as an adjective.

Sashimister, is the prefix お necessary? I've used 気に入る as the predicate of a sentence (i.e., 数学を気に入った), but I've never used it as an adjective, so I'm unfamiliar with it.

Thank you.

[Sashimister]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

Sashimister, is the prefix お necessary? I've used 気に入る as the predicate of a sentence (i.e., 数学を気に入った), but I've never used it as an adjective, so I'm unfamiliar with it.

Yes, the お is "necessary". It's used 99.9% of the time or more so I might as well call it necessary. I can't remember when I heard someone use the word without the お the last time. I probably heard it said by a tough man in a period drama a few years ago.

It's just like the お in お茶（おちゃ = tea） in that we use it without even thinking about being polite.