Sentance Structre assistance, onegai

[hitomebore]

Konnichiwa,

I am a major beginner in Japanese and only know minimal phrases and vocab along with a few conjunctions. I have a porblem with understanding the sentance structure and was wondering if anyone has any tricks or an easy way of understanding how to do structure :p . I would be very grateful for the help, arigato gosaimas!

[Damicci]

Yeah the last "sentence" Should be more like "watashi ha (thing you like) ga daisuki desu."

genkideska (x) genki desuka (O)
Japanese is an SOV language So You being the subject What you like being the Object and Feeling of love being the verb+Copula or something like that.
I am not a grammar major so I couldn't give you better help but try this web site.
http://www.geocities.jp/nihongoguide/

[Stutz]

Well Japanese works in a way that the most important information comes last unlike English where the most important information comes first. The only thing that seems to be similar in progression is the topic which usually comes first in both English and Japanese. Japanese is also pretty flexible in what order you put information in the sentence, but the verb or predicate must always come last. Everything else can be put in what ever order you please, but in the beginning it's usually best to stick to a formation like this:

(Topic) wa (Time/Day) ni (Place action is performed) de (direct object) o (verb).

For time words, "ni" is only used for specific time and if you want to use adverbs you'll slip them in before the direct object word or right before the verb. Never before the particle "o". There are many other ways to make sentences though so don't think this is absolute, but hopefully it will give you a base to work with.

[hitomebore]

thanks! now i've gotta go practice to make all this info stick...*runs off to practice*

[Damicci]

thanks! now i've gotta go practice to make all this info stick...*runs off to practice*

looks good to my limited eye :cool:

[hitomebore]

looks good to my limited eye :cool:

Hatchaaa! *dances*