Darkbear wrote:
Alright. Lol here's a sentence I don't get
kimi to yakusokushita yasashii ano basho made.
I guess it's not the SOV form that throws me off -
I think it's words such as Koto, kono, and so on...
I don't know exactly where to place them, or the extent of their meaning in the sentence.
kimi to yakusokushita yasashii ano basho made
キミと約束した優しいあの場所まで
"Untill that gentle place we wished for"
What we have here is called noun clause, only the sentance you picked out stumped me for a minute, so I will dumb it down alot so you will be able to understand straight away
In english, we say "The park where I walked", "the park" being the noun and "where I walked" being the clause that describes it
It is completely different in Japanese. It comes out "watashi ga aruita kouen desu" 私が歩いた公園です
"watashi ga" is "I", "aruita" is "walked", "kouen desu" is "park". So literally translated, it comes out "I walked park". When saying something like "The park where I walked" in Japanese is that the "Where" part, wich is the noun cluase pre position, gets dropped, you don't need it. Just like "The shop
that I saw this shirt" you would also drop the "that" in this sentance
This maybe a little confusing at first, but after a while, you will realise how much easier it is then english