Please help me translate this

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LincolnJackson2

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7 Feb 2007

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• 20 Mar 2007

• #1

ちょっと聞きたいことがあるんですが

I'm having trouble more so with the ことがあるん portion of the sentence because I have the slightest idea as to what it could mean. Can someone please explain?

 

Glenn

一切皆苦

8 Jan 2004

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• 20 Mar 2007

• #2

こと means "thing/matter" in an abstract sense (in this case). So, there is one of those. I assume you've got the 聞きたい and the rest.

 

yukio_michael

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8 Mar 2005

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• 20 Mar 2007

• #3

There's a whole thread for these questions, is there not?

 

kamaru

先輩

7 Jul 2006

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• 7 Apr 2007

• #4

こんにちは 皆さん、

Ｉｆ Ｉ ｗａｎｔ ｔｏ ｓａｙ "ｙｏｕ ａｒｅ ｔｈｅ ｂｅｓｔ" 、ｗｏｕｌｄ あなたは一番だよ ｂｅ ｇｏｏｄ ？

ありがとう ～～～

 

Elizabeth

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22 Apr 2003

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• 7 Apr 2007

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LincolnJackson2 said:

ちょっと聞きたいことがあるんですが
I'm having trouble more so with the ことがあるん portion of the sentence because I have the slightest idea as to what it could mean. Can someone please explain?

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Is it the ん that is confusing ? The full translation of ことがある is "there is a thing that....(more naturally : there is something that....)" From that point I guess you know how to append 聞きたい to the end in Japanese.