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- "わたしの車は大きいです。"
"わたしの車は大きいです。"
Translation:My car is big.
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Is this the rude person who said "Your car is small" in another example?
Is this not the same as "I have a big car", or is there a specifically different way to say that in Japanese?
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I have a big car would be 大きい車があります。They are trying to highlight the わたしの車 and also adj+です
How to differentiate between "I have a big car" and "there is a big car" from said japanese sentence? Is it from the context?
My guess is that if you want to say "I have a big car", you'd have to say "watashi wa ookii kuruma ga arimasu." For "there is a big car" you'd just say "ookii kuruma ga arimasu" and the rest would be understood from the context, like if you were counting things you possess, it would still mean "I have a big car". I'm not a native speaker though so can't assure you this is right.
Particles would play a part in that, I would assume. Using が would indicate cars are already a part of the conversation or that you are the topic. If the sentence used は it would be introducing cars as the topic. So 大きい車があります- (Speaking of me,) there is (I have) a big car. And 大きい車はあります (Speaking of) big cars; there is one.
Another instance where the kanji for わたし is not accepted. Highly frustrating.
"I have a big car" and "my car is big" might convey the same information but they are completely different sentences grammatically speaking.
Why u boasting? I mean the best-looking cars are small (Lamborghini, Bugatti, etc.)
It's the kanji for car, vehicle or wheel(s), so it could very well be old, but the meaning has changed over time. Even the English word "car" had a different meaning 150 years ago. But why couldn't new signs be created also? They have evolved many times in the past, according to necessity, so why not now also?
