More complex sentence order

Damicci said:

try
晩ご飯には肉を食べました。
As for dinner I ate meat.

か

私は晩ご飯に肉を食べました。
I ate meat for dinner. (Not too sure about this one)

By the way, this should be in Grammar instead.

It may also be more practical to state what kind of meat.

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magevampjoe said:

Hi.
OK, i'm trying to make the sentence ' ate meat for dinner.'
This was my attempt:
「私は」肉が晩御飯を食べました。
I know where 'ate' goes, so that is right.
But I don't know if 肉 should go before or after 晩御飯.

I may have it completely wrong, so please correct me. I remembered to put [] around 'watashi ha' to show it is omitted.

Thanks for your help. Once I have this I should be able to say/write a lot more complex sentences.

Thanks.

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Damicci said:

Thanks Epigene, I realized after searchign for 「晩ご飯に」、it was alot more common than I thought.

Also I found
『晩ご飯で』 common too. What could be the difference?

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EvilCowSlayer said:

Not entirely sure about this, but you can probably think about it as ドイツ語で、 イタリア語で、 and 英語で. The も could just connect them all together.

My translation (in case you needed one): Comments can be in German, Italian, or English.

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kamaru said:

Actually the sentence ended with 「OKです」.
Sorry for the ambiguity
So, in the case it's 「コメントはドイツ語でもイタリア語でも英語ＯＫです」 it would mean comments can be in either one of the languages? coz I thought at first it should be in all of them
ありがとう！

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NattyBumppo said:

Elizabeth,

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your intent in the last post, but if you're trying to say that comments should be left in all of those languages, your construction using でも would not work. (You've basically just written "Please leave a comment in English, Japanese, or German.) You'd need to say something like 「コメントを英語、日本語、ドイツ語の３か国語すべて で記入して下さい。」 to indicate that the user should write in all three... not that you'd want to do that anyway though, heh.

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