I love long, convoluted sentences in Japanese. Maybe part of the language lends itself to an endless onslaught of clauses and sub-clauses, but sometimes I run into a sentence that is so long and just think “damn I love it”. Do any of you have a sentence that you’ve read recently and thought “damn th…

I also like long Japanese sentences, but they’re so overwhelming. It’s sort of annoying to reach the end of the phrase and forget what the whole thing is about. But it’s pretty cool either way. I’ve been reading Murakami Haruki’s “Sputnik Sweetheart” and it have a lot of long, descriptive passages t…

[image] MrBaman: それについれはともかく Not to nitpick, but are you sure about this part? It makes no sense to me :sweat_smile: I feel like ついて could work, though.

Long Japanese Sentences

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FightingFrost April 22, 2019, 12:57pm 2

Yikes, I think I’ll put off learning garmmar and sentence structure even further now

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Long Japanese Sentences

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