I want to say "There is a convenience store behind the bookstore on the left"


In my book, they translated it in to:

> Konbini no hidari ushiro ni honya ga arimasu.

But from earlier examples of the book it should switch konbini with honya

> honya no ... Konbini ga... .

the previus example is:

> There is chair in front of the desk.
>
> tsukue no mae ni isu ga arimasu.

Sorry if its a trivial question, but I can't wrap my head around it




That reads funny to me. I should stress I'm not a native speaker, but my
parsing for the textbook example goes as such:

> Konbini no hidari ushiro ni [honya] ga arimasu.

...where the noun in brackets is the subject. In this case, a described
本屋｛ほんや｝( _honya_ ) is the subject, which isn't equivalent to the given
English. As such, the example sentence of "There is a convenience store behind
the bookstore on the left." doesn't align with the sample.

My crack at a sentence like this, to translate the English, would be:

> 左｛ひだり｝にある本屋｛ほんや｝の後｛うし｝ろにコンビニがあります。  
>  Hidari ni aru honya no ushiro ni KONBINI ga arimasu.  
>  There is a convenience store behind the bookstore on the left.

Explaining how I got there:

> コンビニがあります。  
>  KONBINI ga arimasu.  
>  There is a convenience store.
>
> 本屋｛ほんや｝の後｛うし｝ろにコンビニがあります。  
>  honya no ushiro ni KONBINI ga arimasu.  
>  There is a convenience store behind the bookstore.
>
> 左｛ひだり｝にある本屋｛ほんや｝  
>  hidari ni aru honya  
>  The bookstore on the left ( _noun phrase_ )

Then, replacing the simple 本屋｛ほんや｝( _honya_ ) noun with the noun phrase
左｛ひだり｝にある本屋｛ほんや｝( _hidari ni aru honya_ ) should give us our desired result.




That reads funny to me. I should stress I'm not a native speaker, but my
parsing for the textbook example goes as such:

> Konbini no hidari ushiro ni [honya] ga arimasu.

...where the noun in brackets is the subject. In this case, a described
本屋｛ほんや｝( _honya_ ) is the subject, which isn't equivalent to the given
English. As such, the example sentence of "There is a convenience store behind
the bookstore on the left." doesn't align with the sample.

My crack at a sentence like this, to translate the English, would be:

> 左｛ひだり｝にある本屋｛ほんや｝の後｛うし｝ろにコンビニがあります。  
>  Hidari ni aru honya no ushiro ni KONBINI ga arimasu.  
>  There is a convenience store behind the bookstore on the left.

Explaining how I got there:

> コンビニがあります。  
>  KONBINI ga arimasu.  
>  There is a convenience store.
>
> 本屋｛ほんや｝の後｛うし｝ろにコンビニがあります。  
>  honya no ushiro ni KONBINI ga arimasu.  
>  There is a convenience store behind the bookstore.
>
> 左｛ひだり｝にある本屋｛ほんや｝  
>  hidari ni aru honya  
>  The bookstore on the left ( _noun phrase_ )

Then, replacing the simple 本屋｛ほんや｝( _honya_ ) noun with the noun phrase
左｛ひだり｝にある本屋｛ほんや｝( _hidari ni aru honya_ ) should give us our desired result.

