Does 「何は名前は君の大学か？」 mean "What is the name of your university?"


I just learned the word 大学 and wanted to try to put it into a sentence. My
reasoning is that nani means what, namae means name, kimi no means your and
daigaku means university, although im not so sure that this is how I would ask
it or if it is even correct. Could someone please help me with this? I'd like
to know 1. If i used the particles correctly and 2. If the question makes
sense, if not could you please show me how to say it and explain it? Thank you
for your help c:




> 君の大学の名前は？

is the way to say it. It is short for: `君の大学の名前は何ですか`




While in English we rearrange entire sentences to make them questions, in
Japanese you typically put the question word where the answer would go and add
the question particle か. So, for example, "My university's name is Harvard"
would be

> 僕の大学の名前はハーバードです。

And so to make the question "What is your university's name?" we swap 僕 for 君
(i.e. "me" for "you") and ハーバード for 何 ("Harvard" for "what"), and add the
particle at the end to get

> 君の大学の名前は何ですか。

Although in most contexts we can probably just ask "What is your university?",
or

> 君の大学は何ですか。

And if we're being super casual and the context is already understood, then it
can be shortened all the way to "Your university is ...?"

> 君の大学は？

EDIT: As Chocolate points out, even my suggested option is not really what
you'd say in Japanese. It's more likely that you'd ask _where_ the person's
university is:

> 君の大学はどこですか。

or even

> 大学はどこ？

since in context you don't even need to use the pronoun 君. And it's probably
more likely that you'd ask something along the lines of "Which university _do
you go to_ ", i.e. you'd use a sentence like one of the following:

> どこの大学に行ってるんですか。  
>  なんていう大学に行ってるの。

But, I would guess that the grammar in those sentences is a little past what
you're studying at the moment, so for now I think it's fair enough to say that
most of the above would be _understood_ by a Japanese speaker, but some of
them sound more natural than others.

