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elzouain6749
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Is this sentence correct ?

Postby elzouain6749 » October 17th, 2012 8:03 pm

Anata tachi wa asoko iku desu.

ericf
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Re: Is this sentence correct ?

Postby ericf » October 17th, 2012 9:32 pm

Nearly! iku is the verb to go, for which the polite non-past form is ikimasu, not iku desu. And you need the ni particle to show the direction of the action - it's a bit like the difference in english between "you'll go there" and "you'll go to there". So:

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あなた たち は あそこ に いきます。
anata tachi wa asoko ni ikimasu.

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elzouain6749
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Re: Is this sentence correct ?

Postby elzouain6749 » October 18th, 2012 2:27 pm

Thank you for the correction.

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Re: Is this sentence correct ?

Postby natsukoy9313 » October 23rd, 2012 4:23 am

ericf-san,
Perfect answer! Thank you very much! :D

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Re: Is this sentence correct ?

Postby kaloncharm2333 » October 25th, 2012 6:39 pm

it looks ok to me

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Re: Is this sentence correct ?

Postby asapovk5526 » November 5th, 2012 2:09 pm

I think there must be "he" instead of "ni", because "he" means the direction of movement, but "ni" means placement of action in most cases.

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Re: Is this sentence correct ?

Postby mmmason8967 » November 5th, 2012 9:24 pm

asapovk5526 wrote:I think there must be "he" instead of "ni", because "he" means the direction of movement, but "ni" means placement of action in most cases.

You're right about e marking the destination and so could be used here. But ni has lots of meanings, including marking a destination or a purpose. As I understand it, ni and e are interchangeable as long as we're talking about a place.

For example, you can say either Hiroshima e ikimasu or Horoshima ni ikimasu because Hiroshima is a place, but you if you're talking about, say, shopping you can only say kaimono ni ikimasu because shopping isn't a place (it's an activity or a purpose).

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Re: Is this sentence correct ?

Postby team.relationships » November 6th, 2012 6:10 am

Yes, マイケルsan is correct about "ni" and "e" mentioning directions :D
Well done!

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