"I saw you [verb]ing" (Japanese)
Hello! I've been lurking for a little while and this is my first post, so first I thought I would introduce myself briefly.
Well, I'm a huge language nerd, which is of course why I joined. It's just a hobby for me, though; it has nothing to do with my degree or profession, so I'm sure I'm not as savvy as a lot of you. English is my native language. I have working knowledge of Spanish and Japanese, but both are very rusty, and I'm very ashamed of this! I'm trying to catch up on both at the moment.
I also started learning...er, ATTEMPTING to learn Latin recently, so I have very little knowledge of it and have to look most things up. Someday, I hope to study Finnish, because I think it's a very pretty language. I hope to meet other people here who speak or are studying these languages as well!
What I'm trying to figure out today is how I would say, in Japanese, something like, "I saw you [verb]ing." e.g. "I saw you dancing" or "I saw you crying"
I know what words I need, and I THINK I remember how to conjugate them, but I can't figure out the syntax at all. I'm pretty sure that when you have more than one verb in a sentence, you only conjugate the verb at the end of the sentence, right?
（私は）あなたを踊っているみた ??
Pretty sure I just made that up.
I'd also like to know if the solution would work the same way with any verb combination (like "I heard you crying"), or if it only works with 見る. Just for future reference.
Thanks for any help!
Well, I'm a huge language nerd, which is of course why I joined. It's just a hobby for me, though; it has nothing to do with my degree or profession, so I'm sure I'm not as savvy as a lot of you. English is my native language. I have working knowledge of Spanish and Japanese, but both are very rusty, and I'm very ashamed of this! I'm trying to catch up on both at the moment.
I also started learning...er, ATTEMPTING to learn Latin recently, so I have very little knowledge of it and have to look most things up. Someday, I hope to study Finnish, because I think it's a very pretty language. I hope to meet other people here who speak or are studying these languages as well!
What I'm trying to figure out today is how I would say, in Japanese, something like, "I saw you [verb]ing." e.g. "I saw you dancing" or "I saw you crying"
I know what words I need, and I THINK I remember how to conjugate them, but I can't figure out the syntax at all. I'm pretty sure that when you have more than one verb in a sentence, you only conjugate the verb at the end of the sentence, right?
（私は）あなたを踊っているみた ??
Pretty sure I just made that up.
I'd also like to know if the solution would work the same way with any verb combination (like "I heard you crying"), or if it only works with 見る. Just for future reference.
Thanks for any help!