Help Awkward Phrasing / Translation

Hubert Hung · 4 Nov 2017

I want to say "I don't have time to study and sleep. (or the other way around)"

勉強と寝る時間がありません
Is this correct?
Do I need to add の after 勉強?

If I switch the order,
寝ると勉強の時間がありません
I know that a verb cannot connect with a noun using と, so in this case, do I change it to 寝る事 or simply using the noun form such as 睡眠?

Toritoribe · 4 Nov 2017

The most common way to say it is 勉強する時間も寝る時間もありません。. 勉強したり寝たりする時間がありません or 勉強と/や睡眠の時間がありません also works well.
As for 寝ると, と is not the particle to connect nouns (i.e., "and" in English) but a conditional particle, thus, it means "If/When I sleep".

Mike Cash · 4 Nov 2017

Hubert Hung said:
I want to say "I don't have time to study and sleep."

Does that mean:

I don't have time to study and I also don't have time to sleep.

or:

I have time to sleep or to study, but not both.

???

Hubert Hung · 4 Nov 2017

Mike Cash said:
Does that mean:

I don't have time to study and I also don't have time to sleep.

or:

I have time to sleep or to study, but not both.

???

Haha sorry for the confusion.
I meant the first one, "I don't have time to study and I also don't have time to sleep."

Hubert Hung · 4 Nov 2017

Toritoribe said:
The most common way to say it is 勉強する時間も寝る時間もありません。. 勉強したり寝たりする時間がありません or 勉強と/や睡眠の時間がありません also works well.
As for 寝ると, と is not the particle to connect nouns (i.e., "and" in English) but a conditional particle, thus, it means "If/When I sleep".

The most common way seems a bit redundant (used 時間 2 times). :emoji_joy:
For the したり one, is the punctuation 、 needed? like 勉強したり、寝たりする時間がありません

Toritoribe · 4 Nov 2017

It's not redundant but necessary to use 時間 for each verb, as I said it's the most common way in Japanese.
The comma is not necessary, but there is no problem with using it.

Mike Cash · 4 Nov 2017

Hubert Hung said:
Haha sorry for the confusion.
I meant the first one, "I don't have time to study and I also don't have time to sleep."

Not your fault. It's a quirk of English structure.

Help Awkward Phrasing / Translation

Hubert Hung

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Toritoribe

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Mike Cash

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Hubert Hung

後輩

Hubert Hung

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Mike Cash

骨も命も皆此の土地に埋めよう

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