It depends a lot on the sentence "have" is in how it will be translated.
"I have a car" will usually be (私は)車があります。Literally means "speaking of me, a car exists", but that is a natural way to say it. Similarly, I have a younger sister is 妹がいます。This means "a younger sister exists", but for people and animals, the existence word is います instead of あります.
If you mean that you are carrying something with you, as in "I have an umbrella", the word is 持つ(もつ)-- 傘を持っています。
"I have a cat" is 猫を飼って(かって)います。This literally means "(I am) feeding and taking care of a cat"-- in Japanese, it would sound strange to say that you "had" a cat as a possession.
If you think about these uses of "have" in English, they really convey different meanings, even though we use the same word for all of them. It often happens that a single word in one language will correspond to several different words in another language. The Japanese word 見る(みる), for example, can be translated as "see", "watch" or "look at", which we don't use interchangeably in English.
April 5, 2016 at 2:07pm
depend on what "have"?
thanks for the tip
It depends a lot on the sentence "have" is in how it will be translated.
Well, I learned two new Kanji for the have verb, and now know the hiragana and sounds behind it, thank you.
