If I wanted to say a sentence with multiple verbs, like, for example, “I want to eat food” would I say, in Japanese
I food want to eat
Or
I food to eat want
Also where would I put an adjective? Does an adjective go before or after a noun?
Thanks so much and sorry for the nooby questions!
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“Want to” is a conjugation form, so you would conjugate the verb “eat” using the たい(tai) form. Verb goes in the end, so the sentence would be 食べ物を食べたい。 (food eat-want). You don’t usually say “I” because it’s inferred by context since you’re the one speaking. Adjective goes before the noun. 美味しいリンゴが食べたい。(oishii ringo ga tabetai)(delicious apple eat-want).
You express ‘I want to’ by adding たい to a verb
たべもの を たべる ⇒ I eat food
たべもの を たべたい ⇒ I want to eat food
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84+japanese+express+desire
Japanese basic sentence structure will generally be [subject] [particle] [adjective] [direct object] [particle][verb]. So in your example: watashi wa karai tabemono o tabetai would be “I want to eat spicy food” . Watashi= I karai= spicy tabemono=food tabetetai= want to eat. Particles are a special Japanese feature that links words together which does not have an English equivalent.