Is this sentence correct. (Beginner sentence.)


私は 二 猫を います。 猫は 一 なまえ シャドち。 猫 二 なまえ ランジち。

I'm attempting to say, "I have two cats. cat one is named Shadow. Cat two is
named randy."




Great attempt, but not quite. There are a few things wrong here.

First, to say you "have" something (that is a living being), you use THING
**が** います, not **を**.

Secondly, you need to use counter words ([助数詞]{じょ・すう・し}) which presumably you
haven't learned yet. To form them, you use `number + <counter word>`. For cats
and other small creatures (except for rabbits), the counter word is 〜[匹]{ひき}.
So in this case, you would say 二匹. Now to combine that with the "have" part,
you insert the counter before います. So you'd get

> 私は猫が二匹います。

Counters are a whole other area of study by themselves that I'm not going to
dig into here. They're not difficult, but it takes some practice to learn what
counters there are and what situation to use them in (for example, see [my
question about counting video
clips](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/9714/78)).

(Also, it's maybe a little more natural to say 私 **に** or 私 **には**. See [が and
に interchangeability and difference in
meaning](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/4440/78) for more about this).

Lastly, when using ordinals (i.e., 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...) with counters, you use
the suffix 〜[目]{め}. So "first cat" is 一匹目, "second cat" is 二匹目, and so on.
However, this puts focus on the actual order, and since you're not really
ordering them, I'd suggest 一匹〜もう一匹 ("the first one 〜 the other one") as in
@ajsmart's answer. Also, your word order in the second sentence is a little
off and missing a few particles.

So your sentence would end up looking like

> 私は猫が二匹います。一匹目の名前はシャドです。二匹目の名前はランジです。

or

> 私は猫が二匹います。一匹の名前はシャドです。もうー匹はランジです。 (you could safely omit の名前 for the second
> one)

