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ok, if i wanted to say...
''i desire your dreams''
do i just find the kanji symbol for 'i' then 'desire' etc and put it in same order as english, if you get me?
same for katakana and hiragana.
 
No. Obviously different languages have entirely different grammar and ways of communicating meanings.
 
ok, if i wanted to say...
''i desire your dreams''
do i just find the kanji symbol for 'i' then 'desire' etc and put it in same order as english, if you get me?
same for katakana and hiragana.
"I your dreams desire" is the Japanese order with other words inserted between each of these indicating their relationship to each other.
 
all verbs at the end right? ok, but if i were to say 'i can control your feelings aswell as eat them!'

would i say... 'i can your feelings control aswell as them eat'??
 
It's not just a matter of rearranging the sentence and translating it word by word.

Why are you trying to say this stuff anyways? It makes no sense even in English...
 
that i agree, by the way you can't translate english words in kanji it must be japanese, some people don't still know the logic about learning a foreign language.

please study hiragana first, then follow lessons or buy/rent or search on the net for some japanese sentences and then study katakana.
 
all verbs at the end right? ok, but if i were to say 'i can control your feelings aswell as eat them!'
would i say... 'i can your feelings control aswell as them eat'??
More like : "I your feelings can control (As well as, in addition to, not only...but also) them can eat."

Listen, if you're trying to guess how much Japanese you need for video games and how hard it will be to learn, please start a thread with that in the subject line and I'm sure you'll get some information you can actually use. :eek:
 
do i just find the kanji symbol for 'i' then 'desire' etc and put it in same order as english, if you get me?

From the best of my observation (though with problems because the obvious is omitted), japanese has a distinct clause structure, but it has a few quirks.

Note: Japanese seems to have two types of indirect objects, the place it happens or the place it happens to. The place it happens at will be represented as 1, the one it happens to will be 2.

SUB-ORD-CLAUSE (sometimes only an adv);TIME; "as for (は)"; I-OBJ-1; SBJ; OBJ/I-OBJ-2; ADV; VERB; CONJUNCTION or FEELING PARTICLE;

Remember though, you could always come across a noun phrase modifying a noun or being used as one as well.

It's not just a matter of rearranging the sentence and translating it word by word.

Why are you trying to say this stuff anyways? It makes no sense even in English...

It does in it's own poetic sense, but like many things, that particular poetic feeling method really can't be translated. The closest thing i can think of that will still give the same feeling (without the poetry) would be "(名前)の欲しいものはお上げしますよ。" (I will give you whatever you want [extremly polite].)

all verbs at the end right? ok, but if i were to say 'i can control your feelings as well as eat them!'

"I your feelings can control and can eat." Though, i've never heard of "eating feelings" in english. If you're trying to sway a lady's heart, don't tell her you're going to make her a zombified slave. That just sounds like some kind of sick sounding poem to convince a girl that it's ok to be locked in your basement for your pleasures.
 
It does in it's own poetic sence, but like many things, that particular poetic feeling method really can't be translated. The closest thing i can think of that will still give the same feeling (without the poetry) would be "(名前)の欲しいものはお上げしますよ。" (I will give you whatever you want [extreemly polite].)
There is no compound expression similar to 「上げする」 derived from あげる +します that I know of in Japanese. Plus, the honorific prefix お is not added to verbs to make them more polite.

I will give you whatever you want = あなたが欲しいものは何でも(かって)あげます(よ)。
 
I would venture a guess that he meant 差し上げます, but his version must be correct since only a native speaker can spot errors.

 
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