What's the kanji for like? I'm trying to learn basic sentences. - Feed Post by KenjiSama

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  Affendoktor

  I think it would be:
  私は犬が好き。
  が (ga) for the object
  and 好き for "liking something, be fond of something"

  December 15, 2014 at 5:16pm
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  Affendoktor

  好き (suki)

  December 15, 2014 at 5:16pm
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  deadmo

  It would be "watashi wa inu ga suki desu" "私は犬が好です" or just "inu ga suki" "犬が好"Or if you want to be like "oooohh i love dogs!" you can say "えええ！犬がだい好です"

  December 15, 2014 at 10:18pm
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  Mangan

  Japanese is so different from english so that question is hard to answer... Japanese is situational based (I dont know what its really called) meaning that you only say the things necessary for the listener to understand the message. So you can say 私は犬が好き to be really clear, but 犬が好き or 犬は好きis often fin because the listener probably understand that you're talking about yourself. You would even able to just say 好き is the listener know you're talking about dogs.

  December 16, 2014 at 3:23am
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  Koukyoshi

  As Mangan said, Japanese is not English. 私は犬が好き is not incorrect. If the listener knows you're talking about yourself, you don't even need 私. If you're speaking informally, that's perfectly fine.
  
  The difference between wa and ga is a complex one. I don't fully understand it, even after being here for almost 6 years. There's a certain nuance between 犬が好きです and 犬は好きです. The former I would say is a definitive statement. I like dogs. The latter, on the other hand, is more you're omitting the rest of the sentence. So it'd be more like, I like dogs, as opposed to cats or other animals.

  December 16, 2014 at 10:35am
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  Mangan

  Ga is an identifier particle, Wa is a topic particle, so to keep it simple I just think of them just like that. If I want to identify something I use Ga. It might not be entirely correct, but on the level Im at it definitely works fine :)

  December 17, 2014 at 1:07am