YOU SAID:
yada had a big brown cow
INTO JAPANESE
矢田には大きな茶色い牛がいた
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Yada had a big brown cow.
INTO JAPANESE
矢田には大きな茶色い牛がいた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
There was a large brown cow in Yada.
INTO JAPANESE
矢田には大きな茶色い牛がいた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
There was a large brown cow in Yada.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.