"I ate a lemon" and "a lemon I ate"


Consider this:

> watashi wa remon wo tabeta

This is translated as **I ate a lemon**.

How about this?

> remon wo watashi wa tabeta

This can be translated 2 ways:

1) A lemon I ate

**However** , it _also_ can be translated as:

2) I ate a lemon

which is **the same translation** as in the 1st case (watashi wa remon wo
tabeta), just the order of the words is different.

How would you deal with it on practice?




> > remon wo watashi wa tabeta
>
> This can be translated 2 ways:
>
> 1) A lemon I ate

No it cannot be translated as “a lemon I ate”.

Particle _wo_ indicates a direct object of the verb _tabeta_ , and word order
does not change that.

The phrase “A lemon I ate” in Japanese is “watashi ga tabeta remon”.

> However, it also can be translated as:
>
> 2) I ate a lemon

And this is the only way it can be translated although the word order is not
natural.

