PDA

View Full Version : A question about a sentence.



raintree_leaf
08-17-2008, 11:25 AM
In this sentence, do I assume that there is a implicit(である) after 日本人 or の particle is a form of copula? The で for 米国人で is a connective だ, so there should be a kind of ending verb for this te sequence after 日本人.
米国人で奥さんが日本人の人を知っている
I know an American whose wife is Japanese.

dabura667
08-17-2008, 11:22 PM
In this sentence, do I assume that there is a implicit(である) after 日本人 or の particle is a form of copula? The で for 米国人で is a connective だ, so there should be a kind of ending verb for this te sequence after 日本人.
米国人で奥さんが日本人の人を知っている
I know an American whose wife is Japanese.

米国人 and 人 is repetitive

plus that is like old person Japanese

say "アメリカ人"

日本人の奥さんがいるアメリカ人を知っている。


Is what normal Japanese say. Maybe just me I don't know.

raintree_leaf
08-17-2008, 11:47 PM
This sentence is from yahoo dict and I'm a bit puzzled by its structure.

Kikyosama
08-19-2008, 04:05 AM
I don't know much english, but I thing this sentence

"American wife knows Japanese people"

Beikoku is a America, in very formal japanese.