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  • November 7, 2011 at 4:20 pm #20621

    Nige
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    Hiay all,

    I’m currently in Tokyo for a few days and have a favour to do of a Japanese friend. I need to post some stuff he left with me back to his parents. He told me I can go into a seven eleven store and post with ‘pay on delivery’. I was thinking of saying “are you able to post this please”. I’m still at a quite basic level and don’t know how to say a sentence with more than one verb. I want to end the sentence with できますか, but I’m not sure what form the infinite ‘to post’ should be in??

    Many thanks

    Nige.

    November 7, 2011 at 5:34 pm #20628

    Elenkis
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    You can use the potential form to say that without needing two verbs. For example: この小包は送られますか。

    Using できる it would be: この小包は送ることができますか。

    Though I’m not sure that it would be particularly natural to ask such a question, instead of just saying: これ、郵便で送ってください。 Or: これ、郵便で送りたいのですが.

    Maybe one of the posters who lives there can share their experience.

    You may find this useful: http://www.maggiesensei.com/2010/09/16/%E9%83%B5%E4%BE%BFyuubin-postal-service/

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    November 8, 2011 at 9:18 am #20639

    Nige
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    Hi,

    Thanks, that gives me something to go on.

    Ta

    Nige.

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