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- "午後七時にばんごはんを食べます。"
"午後七時にばんごはんを食べます。"
Translation:I eat dinner at seven P.M.
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Huh. Nihongo word for "meal" apears to come from rice. It makes sense, since rice is of course a staple food in japan.
Why "I have dinner at 7pm" is not correct, not a native English speaker but always thought "have dinner" is a more formal to say it
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Yes, I do agree. It is a common way to say 'having dinner' than 'eating dinner' or such
Being formal doesn't make it wrong. Besides I think in my past of the US we say "have dinner" all the time.
Actually, i hardly think anyone says "I eat dinner" in English. The thing here is that in Japanese they say "I eat dinner" (which can be noticed by the 食べます).
I use "eat" and "have" interchangeably when talking about meals, but they are different words, and the verb 食べる translated is "to eat" not "to have."
That's the correct way to type times in English. It's informally spaced variably nowadays because people wanted to save space in text messages or save time in instant messaging. Otherwise, it's just convenient more than it is proper grammatical formatting.
They use the verb "to eat" not "to have", so it's safer to translate it as it's written.
As a financially stable single person living alone, I'm starting to get that way too.
A couple weeks ago I would've had to listen to this twenty times. Today, I listened to it once and knew exactly what it said. Daily study is worth it!
"um" was one of the words listed in the English word blocks to use. What does it mean?
Um is something you say when you're trying to think of what to say. Like a pause. Japanese uses "ano... " a lot for that.
Why is at 7p.m. before the object, i thought the object always came first in japanese
Object always comes before verb, not first in the sentence. From what I understand about the particles, it's always topic/subject は/が location/timeに direct object を verb[conjugation].
This is the first time it did not accept me using another pronoun in my answer although the Japanese text does not provide a hint who the one eating is. I wrote "We eat dinner at 7:00 pm" and it said "I eat dinner..." is correct. Well, just another report for me...
In some of the answers, it doesnt accent p.m/am but in this one it does? I should've got this right
"I have dinner at 7 pm." marked wrong for "have" instead of "eat" and "pm" instead of "p.m." Seriously?
I think that question will start a flame war. For me the only difference is how they are spelled. For others, dnner is mid-day meal. For others, supper is mid-day meal.
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Growing up in Ohio, my family always used supper to mean something lighter than dinner. Not sure this is the official answer though.
Can we leave out 午後 here like in English (i.e. I eat dinner at 7)? I mean, it should be quite clear to everyone that dinner is eaten past noon (evening)
Used "7 o'clock in the evening" and got it wrong. It means the same thing in English, just my translation is more formal.
It means the same thing, but they specifically wrote 7pm. If they wrote out 7 o'clock in the evening then that's what you would put. Here they used the counter for pm so you have to include it in your answer.
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をis the direct object marker. When you use an "action verb" (aka a transitive verb), you mark what is receiving the action with a を. So for example, "eat" and "drink" are transitive verbs.
In this specific example, ばんごはん (dinner) is the thing that is receiving the action - the thing that you are eating. So you mark it with a を after it.
Another example would be "I drink water." Water is the thing that you doing the action - drinking - to, so you mark it with a を. In Japanese, お水をのみます。
