Translation help please. 1 sentence:)
高校生のとき 日本語を べんきょうしたかったですか。
I have translated it to these alternatives:
1. When you were in high school did you study japanese?
2. Did you want to study japanese in highschool?
ore are both of them wrong?
what is correct? and please explain why.
This is the last preparation question for my final exam, and i am struggling with translating it...
I am supposed to have a conversation about this topic, so i prefer to know what i am being asked :p
Thank you in advance ^^
I have translated it to these alternatives:
1. When you were in high school did you study japanese?
2. Did you want to study japanese in highschool?
ore are both of them wrong?
what is correct? and please explain why.
This is the last preparation question for my final exam, and i am struggling with translating it...
I am supposed to have a conversation about this topic, so i prefer to know what i am being asked :p
Thank you in advance ^^
posted by Navi
Comments 14
I think "When you were in high school, did you want studying Japanese?".
高校生のとき ー when you were highschooler
日本語をーnothing to comment here
べんきょうしたかったー past form of 勉強したい. Hence
I don't know the first few words but from nihongo, benkyou is to learn/study, shitai is to want something, katta makes it past tense. I don't know what the desu would be doing there though. But yeah, "did you want to study japanese in highschool" or regularly in highschool, idk unless the first part dramatically changes it >_> YAY Translations by noobs /o/- 勉強したかったか。ーpast form of べんきょうしたい, hence - did you *want* to study.
- Wouldn't it be したかったますか？ As Masu means something is doing something, where's desu means something is something.. I think xD
Thank you ^^ And issent ますか a polite versjon of ですか ? :p
- I am not sure XD
- 勉強したいー acts as adjective because of たい So 勉強したかったですか (which I did not manage to retype fully in my previous post) makes perfect sense and is polite.
- Ok Thank you very much :D
I have to say the second one. My understanding is that したかった means "I wanted to do (that)". した by itself means "did that or accomplished that (already)".- You're forgetting the ka at the end which indicates a question.
- No, masu as I explained is used for doing words, where's desu is explaining that 'something' is something e.g "I am(desu) okay". Masu = "I am(masu) walking"
It's the second. Did you would be しましたか or したか.
NOT that I'm indicating trust should be put in Google Translate at all for the most part, but... https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/wanted to
For a second you guys actually made me question whether it's possible to conjugate the ~ます ending to ~ましたい, lol! Just in case anyone really doesn't already know: that is definitely NOT possible. My brain was just offline for a few seconds... xD- Thank you :D Japanese is so confusing to me. Can't wait until the day i get good at this! :p
