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Dazza666Post Date: 2010-01-23 20:51:31 save to notebooksaved questions


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Hey,

"if ojisan no ie wa sannin kazoku desu"

translates as 'there are 3 people (family members) at my uncles house

how would you say "my uncles house is 3 family members"

I realise the latter doesn't make sense but from the perspective of grammer, i'd like to know


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NafetsPost Date: 2010-01-29 04:31:43


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i think it would be おじさんの家で三人家族がいます。
i would probably translate the latter as "おじさんの家で家族達が(3つ・三人)います。Unless of course you want to say "my uncles house is 3 family members" then i would translate as おじさんの家は三人家族達です。
 
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Dazza666Post Date: 2010-01-29 06:24:28


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Hey,

thanks for the reply but I can't read the kanji,

any chance you could re-write in kana?

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