"I eat expensive meat."
Translation:高い肉を食べます。
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Furigana is where in Japanese books they include small Hiragana beside the Kanji to tell you how it's read.
It's found mainly in childrens and lower grade level books to help kids who know the vocabulary but might not know the Kanji for a word yet.
You can do that in the settings. For example i removed the romanji so i only have hiragana/katakana and kanji with the writing on top
I knew the kanji for meat already and I was only given hiragana to work with so I couldn't find meat haha
So what is the correct word order in a sentence? I see here that the subject's attribute is before the subject?
And how would i say: "You eat expensive meat." => "Anata wa takai niku o tabemasu" ?
If you wanted to be explicit, yes. However, 高いにくを食べます can already mean "You eat expensive meat." It can also mean "He/She/They eat expensive meat." Context will determine which pronoun to use, since the Japanese does not specify.
No, it would not be correct since you can't replace を with お. All of the kanji in the sentence are learned in the second grade, so it'd be weird to see the sentence without all the kanji I think. 高い肉を食べます would be the best way to say it. It would be clear from context that you are describing the person you are speaking/writing to.
の also has other functions. I'm not sure if this is one of them, but it's better to think of の as "of" when the 's wouldn't make sense.
Will always be like this: adctive + subject+ connection + verb + ending?
Not 100% of the time, no. Sometimes, for example, your adjective and your subject will also need a connection. In the case of i-adjectives, like 高い here, you can just directly attach them to the front of the noun, but there are certain other adjectives, called na-adjectives, where you need a な between the adjective and the noun.
For example, if you wanted to say, "I eat special meat," it would be 特別なにくを食べます。(特別 = とくべつ = "special")
Sometimes the adjective can go at the end of the sentence, too. For example, the sentence, "Meat is delicious." would be にくはおいしいです。(おいしい = delicious)
を is the particle used with some verbs like 食べる or する to describe the thing you're eating / doing.
Example: りんごを食べます - I eat an apple. ゲームをします - I play a game.
Feel free to correct if I'm wrong. I'm still far away from being a japanese expert.
Because in this sentence "expensive" is directly modifying "meat" into a single noun phrase "expensive meat" 高い肉
Putting it after meat would say "I eat the meat is expensive" which doesn't make sense in either language.
If you could be a Wagyu amd live exactly how you wanted for about 15ish years, but then be killed (quickly and painlessly, of course) and served to someone/something, would you do it?
You would first have to nominalize the verb by using the dictionary form and adding の or こと, then mark it as the subject with が (or topic with は) and end it with your adjective (or an optional です to make it more polite)
肉を食べるの or 肉を食べること - "eating meat" (noun) (no and koto are pretty interchangeable
肉を食べるのが高い・肉を食べることは高いです
I thought を is for small round stuff like eggs or apples.. can't put be がafter 肉…?
を is the direct object particle, used for all direct objects of transitive verbs no matter their size or state.
Putting a が after meat would make it sound like the meat is doing the action "Expensive meat eats"
Perhaps you're thinking of 個 ko, the counter most commonly used for small round objects?
For describing quantity, the adjectives were placed after the particle of the noun in the previous lessons. Like, 椅子が三つです。 So, here I tried the same, ie, 肉を高い食べます。 But duo marked it incorrect. Please explain why, thanks
"Expensive meat" has the adjective "expensive" directly modifying the noun "meat"
高い肉 "expensive meat"
肉は高い「です」would be "Meat is expensive"
肉を高い食べます is like "I eat meat expensive" or "expensive I eat meat" which doesn't really make sense.
Counters act like adverbs and can be placed anywhere before the verb in a sentence, but before a noun they need の to directly modify it.
椅子が三つあります There are three chairs [chairs] [quantity of three exist]
三つの椅子があります There are three chairs [quantity of three chairs] [exist]
