Is there a way you could write a sentence that use two or more verbs, or can there only be one verb per sentence. like would “they studied and slept” be “かれらをべんきょしました。かれらもねました。” or “かれらをべんきょしましたtoねました。”? Is there a different verb tense to have many verbs in one sentence?
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There are many ways to do this, for example「〜たり〜たりする」(Google “Japanese tari verbs” or something) or the て-form like「〜て〜る」, so for your example it would be「彼らは勉強して寝ました」
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> かれらをべんきょしました。かれらもねました。
Means roughly: “I studied them. They also [in addition to some other people] slept”. Replace “I” with whichever pronoun or name you feel like
> かれらをべんきょしましたtoねました。
Assuming the ‘to’ is supposed to be と: “I slept ‘I studied them'”. Kind of like saying “I said ‘X'”, but with “slept” instead of “said”
Also 勉強 is read べんきょう, not べんきょ
べんきょう* (with the う)
Also you can’t use を in this sentence, only は or が. (Edit: you can use を but it just doesn’t mean what you think it does)
Other than that, と can’t connect verbs or adjectives, only nouns.
Lastly to answer your question, read this https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/te-form/
the most common neutral connectors are the て form and the ます-stem form
部屋に入って勉強した
部屋に入り、勉強した
both are “entered the room and studied” or “entering the room, i studied”
others mentioned below like たり・たり and し・し also allow more than one verb clause but have something other than simple neutral. the former is to show nonexhaustive examples, and the other is to demonstrate nonexhaustive reasons.
歌ったり踊ったりした – “sang and danced (and stuff)”
歌ったし、踊ったし、十分だろう – “(because) i sang and danced (and stuff), that should be enough”
there’s also simultaneity type constructs like ながら
テレビを見ながら、勉強した – “i studied while watching tv”