Trying to wrtie "I need too much sleep"

[furrykef]

The parsing part is anything but trivial.

Eh?

"I need too much sleep."

I: personal pronoun referring to speaker; subject of the verb "need".
need: verb indicating necessity
too much: an adverbial phrase indicating excess, modifying "sleep"; hence, an excess of sleep
sleep: noun, the object of "need"

See? Parsing it is a piece of cake. Interpreting its meaning is not at all the same thing.

This is perhaps a pedantic point, but I'm often a pedantic person.

- Kef

[two_heads_talking]

This is perhaps a pedantic point, but I'm often a pedantic person.

- Kef

nothing good will ever come of that....

[grodzix]

Wow, I didn't think I gonna get so many replies :b

As many of you have noticed that sentence in English sounds kinda stupid but it was kinda late, I was kinda sleepy, I was learning about ～すぎる and had to come up with some sentence using it, that's why I've used "need too much" instead of "need a lot of" or something similar.

From your posts I understand that いる & ～すぎる don't really work together, am I right?

[keatonatron]

rom your posts I understand that いる & ～すぎる don't really work together, am I right?

Pretty much. Why not start with something simple like "I ate too much and now my stomach hurts" or something?

[becki_kanou]

Just a thought: I was very tired when I woke up this morning after a full 8 hours sleep and just wanted to go back to bed. I said to my husband 「いくら寝ても寝足りません」(No matter how much I sleep it's not enough.), and it made me think of this thread. Perhaps this a good translation for you?