How do you say.I have been to Japan. "Eu estive no Japão. "

Hajimemashite! Ore wa Jyosee desu! (hahahaha xD I want to learn Japanese and Chinese, if you could help me, i will be very thankful xD) (In portuguese my name will be José xD) I think you should train more in punctuation mark; i know that Japanese or even Chinese usually don't use them; It will give you more 'flexibility' to express what do you want to mean in Romantic (Latin derivations) or Saxon languages and even use the correct grammar. For example: the two dots used as smiley's eyes could be used in How do I say: "I have been to Japan" ? But answering your question: Eu fui para o Japão. it's the translation. But translating word by word, it will be: Eu tenho estado para o Japão Very uncommon, right? xD It happen because in Portuguese we have more than thirty verbal forms xD While all the rest of the world - unless other romantic languages as French, Latin, Romanian or Spanish - use combinations, we have some species of 'ideograms' (used as words xD) that represent this union of two words. And, of course, is the 'Logic' of the context we know that it is that and etc xD I expect to help you in this - and sorry to difficult more with other things. But i guess it can help you in the future =D Sayounara!

If you say "eu JÁ estive no Japão" is the same as "i've had already been in Japan" And in Portugual i believe people use "eu nunca a vi" or "eu nunca o vi" to say "i've never seen him/her" but in Brazil this isn't use in oral conversation. We say "eu nunca vi ele" or "eu nunca vi ela"

I have been in Japan = Eu estive no Japão. I have never seen him = Eu nunca o vi. In Portuguese, there are many tenses when u conjugate verbs. There are 5 past tenses in the indicative form and 3 past tenses in the subjuntive. If u want a 'real' translation (word by word) it will be : "have been" = "tenho estado" / "have seen" = "tenho visto". But we usually don't say "Eu tenho estado no Japão." which is correct though. We do have 'perfect' tense in our grammar but it can sound very weird in our speaking. That's why the translation is in the 'simple' tense. If u use 'since, for' (desde, por). Then, it is better to say in the perfect tense. For example: I have worked in schools since I was 13. = Eu tenho trabalhado em escolas desde os 13 anos. She has played soccer for more than 5 years. = Ela tem jogado futebol por mais de 5 anos. Compare: Eu tenho trabalhado. (Perfect tense) It is not finished yet. Eu trabalhei. (Simple tense) The work is finished. If it is still confusing, please write me a message and I explain it better ^^

Q: How do you say.I have been to Japan. A: "Eu estive no Japão" usually followed by a time reference like "last week" or "last year" or A: "Eu já estive no Japão." Q: I have never seen him A: "Eu nunca o vi." (This answer works both for person or place or object but a Male word.) If it is a Female word then use: A: "Eu nunca a vi."