Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Which words are omitted in Japanese?
So I'm learning Japanese right now. I was wondering which words in a sentence are ommited. I know if the topic is implied, it can be left out. But what if you were trying to say something like:
私のあには彼のコンピューターを売る。
(My brother is selling his computer.)
My grammer could be completely off, but which words should be omitted in this sentence? Should "watashi no" be ommited (since it's not a subject)? And should "kare no" also be ommited?
3 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
There are times when I'm talking to my wife (who's Japanese) and I think that almost everything is omitted :-)
It's all context. If it can be understood from the context, then it is often not included in the sentence. There are times where a single word - a verb - can be an entire sentence, if the rest of it can be worked out from the conversation up to that point. You have to pay attention to what's been said already, much more than you do in English, for instance.
- KAPPALv 68 years ago
私の can be there, but 彼の can not be there.
You have already specified the subject as your brother, you do not need anything more in there.
Source(s): 日本人
