in japanese sentence structure..?

Question

The basic sentence structure
Is
Subject Object Verb.
Watashi wa pan o tabemasu.
I bread eat.

ok,
What if you have a sentence with two verbs.
Such as
"Im sitting here trying to express my feelings"
Some one please explain this to me!
thanks!

Answer 1

ok, this might get confusing. i'm sorry if it does. i'll say "i am typing and listening to music".

first, let's break down the sentence. "i am typing" and "i am listening to music" are the sentences we want to bring together.

i type would be "watashi wa taipu o shimasu" (watashi is i, wa is is, taipu o shimasu is to type, so "i am type"). to change the sentence to i am TYPING, you need to change the verb into "te" form. te form is used to make it doing something.

the rules are easiest to memorize in a song. (to the tune of oh christmas tree)

"oh mi, ni, bi
oh mi, ni, bi
mi, ni, bi wa nde" (meaning that every verb with the last syllable before masu is mi, ni, or bi, you take away the mi, ni, or bi, and add "nde")

"oh i, chi, ri
oh i, chi, ri
i, chi ri, wa -te" (meaning that for every verb ending in i, chi, or ri, you take the i, chi or ri away and add a pause [a little tsu] and te)

"ki wa ite" (ends in ki, change to ite)
"gi wa ide" (ends in gi, change to ide)
"shi wa shite" (meaning if the word is "shimasu", you change it to shite)
"ki wa kite" (if the word is kimasu, change to kite)

"oh mi, ni, bi
oh mi, ni bi,
e to 1 syllable wa plus te" (if the last syllable ends with e [tabemasu, for example] or only has one syllable, you add te to the end)

to be doing something, you must add "imasu". so, "____ o shimasu" becomes "____ o shiteimasu", changning it to "currently ___".

so let's go back. "i type" is "watashi wa taipu o shimasu". to make it "i am typing", we must change "shimasu" into the te form, which we see would mean it becomes "shite". to make it in present form, it becomes "shiteimasu". so, "i am typing" is "watashi wa taipu o shiteimasu".

the next sentence, i listen to music, would be, "watashi wa ongaku o kikimasu" (listen to music is ongaku o kikimasu, so i am listen to music). to make it "i am listening to music", we must change "kikimasu" into the te form, making it "kiite". present form would be "kiiteimasu". so "i am listening to music" is "watashi wa ongaku o kiiteimasu".

now, we have our two sentences. "i am typing" ("watashi wa taipu o shiteimasu.") and "i am listening to music ("watashi wa ongaku o kiiteimasu.").

in order to put them both together, though, we must change "shiteimasu" back to te form, to make it be able to add onto another sentence.

so now we have "watashi wa taipu o shite" and "watashi wa ongaku o kiiteimasu". the second sentence does not need "watashi wa", since the first sentence already has it in it.

so now, we connect the two sentences. the first sentence: "watashi wa taipu o shite";
and the second sentence: "ongaku o kiiteimasu".

so, our final sentence ("i am typing and listening to music") is:
"watashi wa taipu o shite ongaku o kiiteimasu."

another example ("i am running and playing basketball") is:
"i run" is "watashi wa hashirimasu"
"i play basketball" is "watashi wa basukettobooru o shimasu"

the te form of these sentences:
"i run"becomes "watashi wa haite"
"i play basketball" becomes "watashi wa basukettobooru o shite"

change the last sentence so it is in present form with no "i":
"basukettobooru o shiteimasu"

put the two together:
"watashi wa haite"
and
"basukettobooru o shiteimasu"
become
"watashi wa haite basukettobooru o shiteimasu"
("i run and play basketball")

i hope that helped!

Answer 2

You would say I am sitting here while trying to express my feelings, by using nagara (add it to the first verb),

tabenagara terabi o mimashita.
I was eating while watching television.
so the structure would be
while expressing feelings trying, here sitting am.
Add nagara to expressing.

Answer 3

I'm sitting here trying to express my feeling.
'Koko ni suwatte jibun no kimochi wo hyougen shiyou to shite iru.'

I am typing and listening to the music.
'Ongaku wo kikinagara taipu wo utte iru.'

I run and play basketball.
'Watashi wa hashittari basukettobooru wo shitari suru.'

Answer 4

but if you want to say I will eat bread and watch TV another thing you CAN do is

watashi ha pan wo tabetari terebi wo mitari shimasu

Answer 5

You would just use the particle "to" which means and.