Is my translation of "Me and my girlfriend live in tokyo" correct?


So I am very new to Japanese (1 week of study) so please bear with me and
forgive me for my mistakes. I will use romanji as i do not know the entire
hiragana yet

My translation: Watashi to watashi no kanojo wa tokyo ni sunde imasu

I do not like how I am repeating Watashi twice. I feel like that sounds weird,
how would i fix i?

Also are all the particles correct? The topic is "Watashi to watashi no
kanojo", I assume the listener is familiar with my girlfriend hence i used
_wa_. If they did not know i have a girlfriend would I have used _ga_? as that
is a new piece of information in the universe of discourse?

The particle _to_ can be used to connect two nouns in this case me and my
girlfriend. _no_ shows possession, it is my girlfriend not some girlfriend.
_ni_ shows location of where the verb is happening.




Don't worry, your translation is correct. Let's break it down one by one:

> Me(watashi) and my(to watashi no) girlfriend(kanojo) live in tokyo(wa tokyo
> ni sunde imasu).

The reason you're repeating watashi twice is _watashi_ and _watashi no_ is
entirely different.

I know that it's not the best way to describe it, but it's not the same as
saying she's my property(watashi no), and yourself(watashi).

Even if the listener didn't know about your girlfriend we'd still use _wa_ ,
if you used _ga_ it'd be translated to _Me and my girlfriend **are living** in
Tokyo._.

I know it's not much of a different, but even small differences are important
to a language.




Don't worry, your translation is correct. Let's break it down one by one:

> Me(watashi) and my(to watashi no) girlfriend(kanojo) live in tokyo(wa tokyo
> ni sunde imasu).

The reason you're repeating watashi twice is _watashi_ and _watashi no_ is
entirely different.

I know that it's not the best way to describe it, but it's not the same as
saying she's my property(watashi no), and yourself(watashi).

Even if the listener didn't know about your girlfriend we'd still use _wa_ ,
if you used _ga_ it'd be translated to _Me and my girlfriend **are living** in
Tokyo._.

I know it's not much of a different, but even small differences are important
to a language.

