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日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 4

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-09 8:07

If you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.


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Name: Anonymous 2011-10-24 8:56

>>488
Splitting the sentence into two requests sounds unnatural and redundant. Also cut out the 私の bit, if you lent someone a book they already know that and don't need the information. Japanese doesn't function like in English where you need to specify every little detail, less is more.

To that end, it would be better to just say:
明日、本を返してください。

And no, you can't mark the book with は, it's a direct object and not the subject.

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