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Relative Clauses and Adjective Placement
How would you add adjectives inside a relative clause to the thing being modified? Is the placement set?
For example, in this sentence, can "new" come directly before computer (1) or should it be ...
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Can an adjective come after a verb?
I was trying to say "I write slow".
I figured it would be:
おそい（が）かく。
But a native speaker didn't understand me and said it was:
かくのがおそい。
Now I understand how の after a verb makes it a noun, ...
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Is there an order of adjectives in Japanese?
In English, if we have multiple adjectives modifying a noun, there is a preferred order for those adjectives, for example:
nice long red car
*nice red long car
*long red nice car
I was wondering if ...
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