Short Grammar Questions (Part 1)

[WeebPotato]

@mariodesu

Oh, so it’s not ungrammatical to say
私の家は大阪にある ?
Would it still be natural to say, or weird?

While not a definite answer by a stretch, I think this may help:

Japanese Sentence a Day Challenge

Good question. I think if one were to aim at a 1:1 question-answer and the question used ある, it would be more natural to answer with an ある answer. What I meant earlier is that if you’re just making a statement about something being “located” somewhere, it’s a little unusual to use です. In Japanese the main difference is that ある is a verb and です not really (insert long explanation about copulas, also I’m not a linguist ). You can have a sentence without the です part, but ある is actually mea…