"My father lives in a foreign country."
Translation:父は外国にすんでいます。
August 26, 2017
5 Comments
It doesn't really sound natural because the tendency is to put the topic (marked by は) at the start of the sentence like in english.
October 19, 2017
James151779
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True, but this is Japanese, and it is perfectly readable (well, as good as I am at reading Japanese ) either way. I do admit that if one translated it directly in the same structure, it would sound a bit like Yoda. "In a foreign country, my father lives." But that is true of almost every sentence translation.
September 15, 2018
