How do you say "What are the differences between car and motorcycle "?


I have just learned about "WH question" in japanese. Now I'm learning about
"What is" and since the examples are so simple, only "What's your name". I'm
curious how to say "What are the differences between car and motorcycle".

This is what I try so far for "What are the differences between car and
motorcycle" :

> 間にそしてオートバイを異なるはなんですか？

And this is for "What are the differences" :

> 異なるはなんですか？

Are those correct?




To ask about the difference between Ａ and Ｂ, you could say:

> **Ａ と Ｂ の違{ちが}い** は何{なん}ですか？

Here, we put two nouns together with と, giving us the larger noun phrase ＡとＢ.
We want to join this to the noun 違い "difference", so we use the genitive
particle の.

Literal translation doesn't work very well between English and Japanese; our
phrase is literally close to "the difference of A and B". There's no need to
say something like "between" in Japanese. The little words like prepositions
or particles rarely match up well between languages, and this is especially
true between English and Japanese.

間にそしてオートバイを isn't really comprehensible, but it looks like you tried to
translate "between" and "and" using a dictionary. That doesn't work, I'm
afraid! You can't translate word-by-word into Japanese. You have to learn how
sentences are normally formed, and that's different in each language.

For now, don't try to form your own sentences from scratch using a dictionary.
Instead, try to pattern everything you say after correct Japanese. You might
find a book like Naoko Chino's [_Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence
Patterns_](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/4770026080) helpful.

By the way, your sentence doesn't appear to have "car" in it. You can use
車【くるま】 for "car".




To ask about the difference between Ａ and Ｂ, you could say:

> **Ａ と Ｂ の違{ちが}い** は何{なん}ですか？

Here, we put two nouns together with と, giving us the larger noun phrase ＡとＢ.
We want to join this to the noun 違い "difference", so we use the genitive
particle の.

Literal translation doesn't work very well between English and Japanese; our
phrase is literally close to "the difference of A and B". There's no need to
say something like "between" in Japanese. The little words like prepositions
or particles rarely match up well between languages, and this is especially
true between English and Japanese.

間にそしてオートバイを isn't really comprehensible, but it looks like you tried to
translate "between" and "and" using a dictionary. That doesn't work, I'm
afraid! You can't translate word-by-word into Japanese. You have to learn how
sentences are normally formed, and that's different in each language.

For now, don't try to form your own sentences from scratch using a dictionary.
Instead, try to pattern everything you say after correct Japanese. You might
find a book like Naoko Chino's [_Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence
Patterns_](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/4770026080) helpful.

By the way, your sentence doesn't appear to have "car" in it. You can use
車【くるま】 for "car".

