“为什么日本人必须学英语？倒应该是外国人需要学习日语！”“你说得有道理！” - Zhictionary

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“为什么日本人必须学英语？倒应该是外国人需要学习日语！”“你说得有道理！”

"Why should Japanese people have to study English? Foreigners should have to study Japanese!" "What you say makes sense!"

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

why?
for what reason?

Japanese person or people

Japanese person

to have to
must
compulsory
necessarily

to learn
to study
to imitate
science
-ology

English (language)

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
to fail; to go bankrupt
to overthrow
to change (trains or buses)
to move around
to resell at a profit

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
to pour out
to tip out; to dump
inverted; upside down; reversed
to go backward
contrary to what one might expect; but; yet

ought to; should; must

to be (followed by substantives only)
correct; right; true
(respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
(adverb for emphatic assertion)

variant of 是 shì

to need; to want; to demand; to require
needs

to learn
to study

Japanese language

you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)

you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)

to speak; to talk; to say
to explain; to comment
to scold; to tell off
(bound form) theory; doctrine

variant of 说 shuō

to obtain
to get
to gain
to catch (a disease)
proper
suitable
proud
contented
to allow
to permit
ready
finished

used in 得瑟 dèse

structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc

to have to
must
ought to
to need to

to make sense; reasonable

reasonable; well-founded; rational