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[Anonymous No.]

Is this translation valid in Japanese?

僕の魚は僕の髪を掃除しませんでした。
to
My fish did not clean my hair.

Pic unrelated, I just needed something to put up.

[Anonymous No.]

ask /lang/.
>>>/lang/.

[Anonymous No.]

It is correct, but it is far too outlandish.

[Anonymous No.]

>2 x 僕の
Sounds pretty redundant to me.

Not to mention the absurdity of the sentence but I've seen more weird thijngs in my life.

[Anonymous No.]

The sentence was supposed to be absurd. We're suggested to make any type of sentences we can, as long as they convey the original meaning and is correctly conveyed. It seems I hit my mark.

>>10083377
How would I make it less redundant and both specify that it's my hair and my fish?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10083384
>僕の魚は僕の髪を掃除しませんでした
魚は僕の髪を掃除しませんでした

[Anonymous No.]

>>10083384
You should just drop the second "ore no". It's clear from the context that the hair in question belongs to you.

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>>10083401
I don't see how that can be 'clear from the context' when there is no context.
Also it says 僕, not 俺.

[Anonymous No.]

That's exactly what ATLAS translated it to...

Google is being idiotic as usual with "I did not fish to clean my hair."

[Anonymous No.]

>>10083405
Because it should probably say 僕の魚が僕の髪を掃除しませんでした。

[Anonymous No.]

You can't use 掃除 for hair.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10083415
As I understood it, you had to mark the primary subject with は before moving to が。

>>10083417
掃除します is to clean, not hair. Hair is 紙.

So then to say something like "My fish did not clean my hair, but my bear found the school." would something like 僕の魚は僕の髪を掃除しませんでしたが、僕の熊が学校を見つけます。?

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>>10083417
Semi-fail. I forgot that reading existed as more than one kanji. 髪 is the one I meant to correct you on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10083436
What I'm saying is 掃除 is used for things like an apartment, and isn't used for hair.

[Anonymous No.]

The real question is what kind of deranged human being comes up with an example like that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10083461

Maybe I want my hair to smell like fish and require a seeing-eye bear? You don't know that.

Despite that minor discrepancy, does it make general sense?

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>>10083430
>As I understood it, you had to mark the primary subject with は before moving to が。

が is the subject of the sentence, は is the topic of the sentence.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10083476
That's what I meant. I'm still unfamiliar with all of the terminology.

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>>10083497
Well I'm bad at explaining, but your fish is the subject, so it should have ga.

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>>10083430
You should probably use 洗う for hair.
You normally "wash" your hair, not clean it. 掃除 would be used if you were cleaning up your room or something like that.