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DrPhish on March 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure

In general, you can drop everything except the jitsugo (verb or adjective most usually) if the other bits can be inferred.

eg: Taberu (eat) or Hayai (fast)

It sounds like cavemen talk if you translate it literally, but it is perfectly valid japanese

klodolph on March 19, 2017 [–]

Syntactically we might call "hayai" a verb, which would then be translated as "is fast" rather than just "fast". Semantically, it is an adjective.

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