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"It was sunny yesterday."
Translation:昨日は晴れでした。
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Gramatically, you need it :) but in conversation, japanese often shorten the conversation. So you can get rid a particle that doesnt affect the meaning of the sentence. Btw, 'wa' here is used to mentioning 'yesterday' as the main topic.
Kinou wa hare deshita ( Yesterday was sunny )
vs
Kinou, hare deshita (It was sunny yesterday)
No, grammatically you DON'T need it. The words "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow", etc. are used as non-specific temporal adverbs in Japanese, and they can appear anywhere in the sentence. Adverbs in Japanese do not take topics. You can explicitly make 昨日 the topic by appending は, but you can just as easily drop it out.
「昨日」「今日」are primarily nouns, and there's a difference between using them as such vs as time expressions qualifying the action/state. An example like NadiaNatha3's first one:
“Yesterday is today's old times” (昔［むかし］)
Here Yesterday is what we're talking about. You can't drop は and you won't find the proverb without it.
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2020.4.26 You'll be shocked how much is dropped when spoken compared to "grammatically correct.*
私には弟が３人います。 can become
弟 ３人 います 弟が３人 弟３人「would fly in the context of a conversation」
- 616
Still trying to figure out how to format mixed Japanese and English here. Definitely isn't WYSIWYG
弟 ３人 います。 弟が３人。 弟３人「would be ok in the context of a conversation」
Haar means hot in Arabic (my language) So hare is easy to remember;) (I know they're not the same word but close)
Also the Japanese word "あなた" or "あんた" has a significant similarity with Arabic. I'm no native Arabic speaker, but I see these languages have some words in common.
That's true of most languages, though. "doko," for instance, is a word I found similar to the Spanish "donde." If you search hard enough, you're bound to find words that seem related between languages.
You can use the verb, but it would make more sense to say 晴れていました, because 晴れました would mean more like "The sun came out (at some point) yesterday."
@Filipe Nunes no I don't think so. As masu/mashta/masen/masendeshita are for verbs.
Please correct me if I am wrong guys.
I think we can, because googling images for "晴れた夜" はれたよる）or "晴れ夜" はれよる）turns up photos of clear nights. It's a little trick to use when I doubt if people actually say something.
kanji has multiple meanings look at the Kanji dictionary for a better understanding of the vocab words
This translation sounds very awkward. Do native japanese really say that in Japan? Hmm!
- 616
2020.12.30
Sounds perfectly fine to me. 晴れ means sunny, or a sunny day. Why do you think the Japanese is awkward?
You're right. It is a direct translation of the the English. Clean! I was distracted somehow by something else at the time of my exercise.
A previous question marked me wrong for writing "sunny" instead of "bright" for はれて。
Why no particle after はれ? I get that it's not a direct object, but it "feels" like there should be something separating it from でした. Clearly as I'm a beginner my "feeling" is wrong; can someone help me get a better grip on this?
