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Grammar is very complicated.
文法はとてもややこしい。
His thesis is related to mine.
彼の卒業論文は私のと関係がある。
In many languages the way dictionary-form words end is fixed; in Japanese they end in a 'u row' character.
多くの言語で辞書形の語尾が決まっており、日本語ではう段の文字で終わる。
A few minor mistakes apart, your writing is good.
少々の小さな間違いを除いて君の作文はよく書けている。
He is always complaining about the way I do things.
彼はいつも私のやり方に文句を言っている。
Your composition is free from all grammatical mistakes.
君の作文には文法の間違いは1つもない。
What is your favorite sentence?
あなたの一番好きな文は何ですか?
In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the -ing form verb, that is the present participle.
進行形の文では、動詞のing形、つまり現在分詞となります。
The goods were entered to her.
その品物は彼女の注文品として記入された。
I have made several pen pals there.
私はそこで何人かの文通友達ができた。
That paper of his deal with environmental problems.
彼のその論文は環境問題を扱っている。
Our school festival was held last month.
文化祭は先月開催された。
You can't separate language from culture.
言葉を文化から引き離すことはできない。
This is a simple declarative sentence.
これは簡単な平叙文である。
Write an essay on "Friendship".
「友情」という題で作文を書きなさい。
For some reason the message text was corrupted, so I restored it before reading.
メッセージがなぜか文字化けしていたので、修復して読みました。
Let's order twenty kebabs!
ケバブを二十個注文しよう!
This composition leaves nothing to be desired.
この作文は申し分ない。
Fundamentally, you're not practicing anything by translating, so even if you say that you can't do it, once you've set your sights on a similar sentence you've seen before that is more natural yet does not quite convey the original sentence's nuances, tra
Example sentence no. 354618 created a lot of confusion on the Tatoeba website.
例文第354618でタトエバホームページの中で多くの混乱が起こった。
When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
If the other person does mention his family, then it is perfectly OK to ask about the ages of the children, and if you have children, to compare educational and cultural differences in raising children.