How could this sentence be written?

derick78b · 15 Oct 2011

Right now I'm starting to use 2 verbs in a single sentence.

I want it to mean: "Mom wants to sell the car."

But I already know how to write "mom sells the car."

How can I write it?

Thanks.

Mike Cash · 15 Oct 2011

Please get a textbook. This is not a good way to learn Japanese.

derick78b · 15 Oct 2011

The main thing is: I don't know how I can use 2 verbs in a phrase being "want" the first one and some other verb.

Ex:
I want to visit you.
Bob really wants to join us.
Don't they want to speak japanese?

Get it?
I don't know if the second verbs have some kind of conjugation or they remain the same in the dictionary form.

Thank you.

undrentide · 15 Oct 2011

Verbs you want to do with 「たい」
Desire and Suggestions | Learn Japanese

As Mike suggested, you should get a text book on basic Japanese language. Throwing random questions does not bring you very far.

Rei Yahya · 15 Oct 2011

Japanese The Easy Wayはすごい日本語の教科書で、アマゾンで探せる。
すぐに買ってください。

Toritoribe · 15 Oct 2011

another correction... | Japan Forum

Adding to undrentide-san's, you need to know at least the suffix ～がる and the ～ている form to compose this sentence. Most textbooks devote several chapters to explain these structures. That's why Mike-san and undrentide-san recommended to buy a textbook. There were few people who requested us to write thousand words for them here in this forum, just like you...

Ah, one more thing, I think it would be better to give us the courtesy of replying at least whether or not you can understand our answers to your questions.

derick78b · 15 Oct 2011

Toritoribe said:
Adding to undrentide-san's, you need to know at least the suffix ～がる and the ～ている form to compose this sentence. Most textbooks devote several chapters to explain these structures. That's why Mike-san and undrentide-san recommended to buy a textbook. There were few people who requested us to write thousand words for them here in this forum, just like you...
Ah, one more thing, I think it would be better to give us the courtesy of replying at least whether or not you can understand our answers to your questions.

Sorry, but it sounded to me that he was being mean, which I'm not gonna tolerate. These were just random phrases, I'm studying with a textbook, that's why I'm sending sentences, but I don't know if they're right or wrong 'till you correct me, got it?
I'm providing new material for me, but you too have to understand: they're extremely expensive here. I'm searching through websites too, but it's frustating, everything I want to study in my bed I have to turn the computer on, that's what I really don't want to do.
Thank you once more.
Byebye

Toritoribe · 16 Oct 2011

derick78b said:
... got it?...

I don't think that is proper behaviour when asking people to help you...

Mike Cash · 16 Oct 2011

Toritoribe said:
I don't think that is proper behaviour when asking people to help you...

You are correct. It is exceedingly rude.

Coffeesan · 16 Oct 2011

Got it is quite sarcastic and rude for us admitidly. But for a non-native speaker they may think their just using a more colloquial (perhaps even friendlier) version of ''did you understand that'' kinda thing. Mabye give him the benefit of the doubt on it. Derick what is the name of the textbook you're using out of interest?

derick78b · 18 Oct 2011

I'm really sorry about what everything turned out. For me, "got it" is a expression like any other else, I didn't mean to offend ANY one. As Coffeesan said: for me this means: "did you understand?", nothing else.
I apologize if I offended any one.

Here, as I said, books are TOTALLY expensive, imported ones are like gold. One book in U.S. that costs about 10 dollars, here, it costs about 50 or 60 dollars, so it's expensive a lot.
I've download some books. The only one I found about BASIC GRAMMAR is "A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar" written by Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui.
But it's not good I think. I has A LOT of verbs and helps how to use them. But I really need GRAMMAR, not verbs!
That's why I'm posting my doubts here, I thought you could help me out.

So, what book do you recommend?
P.S. Please, is a website where I can download those books?

Thank you once more,
byebye.

charusu · 18 Oct 2011

derick, that book is incredible - it might not be very useful to you right now, but it will in the future. Check out Japanese Grammar Guide | Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese for a pretty serious introduction to Japanese grammar - it is quite extensive. For things that YOU (the speaker) want to do check out the -tai form - it is in that book and on the website I listed above. If you read the entry in the book it will tell you how to express someone else's desire.

And that book doesn't contain THAT many verbs - but many things in Japanese behave like verbs (in that one must conjugate them) like i-adjectives (including the -tai form).

derick78b · 18 Oct 2011

charusu said:
derick, that book is incredible - it might not be very useful to you right now, but it will in the future. Check out Japanese Grammar Guide | Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese for a pretty serious introduction to Japanese grammar - it is quite extensive. For things that YOU (the speaker) want to do check out the -tai form - it is in that book and on the website I listed above. If you read the entry in the book it will tell you how to express someone else's desire.
And that book doesn't contain THAT many verbs - but many things in Japanese behave like verbs (in that one must conjugate them) like i-adjectives (including the -tai form).

thanks, I already know about that site.
But one thing I didn't like about it is that there's no pronunciation of the kanjis. I'd really like to start speaking too, not only knowing that kanji means that word, understand?

Thank you very MUCH.

charusu · 18 Oct 2011

Have you tried hovering over a kanji on Tae Kim's site with your mouse? You'll get the contextual box with kana - then just say it aloud.

derick78b · 18 Oct 2011

charusu said:
Have you tried hovering over a kanji on Tae Kim's site with your mouse? You'll get the contextual box with kana - then just say it aloud.

Thank you,

I'm sooo dumb I didn't see it there.

thank you once more.

Toritoribe · 18 Oct 2011

"Rikaichan" would help you.

https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/rikaichan/

How could this sentence be written?

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