Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [でした]

She was not a very good pianist.

So much has happened. It's as if the whole world is flipped upside down.

So much has happened, that it's as if the world turned upside down.

You have changed so much that I can hardly recognize you.

The Amazon is the second longest river in the world after the Nile.

My year in Africa was a very educational experience in many ways.

Abraham Lincoln's father was a carpenter by trade.

The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.

Who is that old man?

The old men like to meet on the street corner just to shoot the bull.

The hotel has a homey atmosphere.

That hotel has a homey atmosphere.

I am going to get that sucker.

Who was that troublesome man?

What do those lights signify?

That translation is said to be true to the original.

That inn is 5,000 yen a night, meals excluded.

Whose is that book?

That book is a new book.

The readers of that book think themselves sophisticated.