Japanese sentence builder

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That’s it. わたしはコーヒーをのみます Watashi wa koohii o nomimasu.

I drink coffee.

Topic, then the thing you drink, then the verb. The verb always comes last.

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That’s it. あしたがっこうにいきます Ashita gakkou ni ikimasu.

Tomorrow I’ll go to school.

Time words usually come first, then the destination with に (ni), then the verb.

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That’s it. これはわたしのほんです Kore wa watashi no hon desu.

This is my book.

わたしの (watashi no) has to come right before the thing it owns: my book.

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That’s it. たなかさんはにほんごのせんせいです Tanaka-san wa nihongo no sensei desu.

Tanaka-san is a Japanese teacher.

にほんごの (nihongo no) describes the teacher, so it sits right before せんせい (sensei).

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That’s it. これはおいしいりんごです Kore wa oishii ringo desu.

This is a delicious apple.

An adjective like おいしい (oishii) comes before the noun it describes.