庭園の例文や意味・使い方に関するQ&A

A: Someone takes good care of his or her garden.

A: garden

A: 「庭園」…「庭」より規模が大きく、品格のあるもの。
「庭」…主として個人の家にあるもの。
「庭園」＞「庭」という違いがあります。

A: 園 is not used alone. It is used in combination with other kanji (like 庭園, 後楽園) or in the form of "～の園" (like 桜の園).
庭園 can be used alone as a general noun.

A: 庭園; an artistic/beautiful/(relatively) bigger garden that has a fountain​, a pond, a pruned/special tree and so on. Some of them are histrionic/public places that are located in castles, palaces, high-class/gorgeous hotels or gorgeous residences and so on. It used when you want to deliberately say a great/wonderful garden.
庭; a (normal) garden/(just) a garden. It's the most common word to describe gardens, and can be used for both big/great gardens like 庭園 and general gardens that normal people have in their own houses/lands.

A: Basically they are same, but in common use, 庭園 are large expensive gardens that rich people own.
For example, there is a small garden in my parents' home, but I never call it 庭園. I simply call it 庭.
On the other hand, there is a nice Japanese-style garden near my apartment which was once owned by a daimyo (feudal lord), and it is called 庭園.

A: これでも正しいですが、最後に「よ」をつけて、「昨日、庭園に行ったよ。」と言うとsoftに聞こえて、もっとnaturalになりますよ😊

A: In my opinion, that's mistaken for something.
even though I am native Japanese,
I can't get its mean.

A: I think 歩くことがきれいsounds unnatural.
it means
"to walk in the garden" is beautiful.
You wanted to say you walked in the garden and it was very beautiful, don't you?
If so, as hanao86,aimiii said,
庭園をあるいたら、庭園の中を歩いたらor, 庭園の中を歩きましたが、
とてもきれいでした。sounds natural.
If you use "が" after "歩くこと", " 歩くこと" become subject, so it sounds unnatural.
Sorry for my poor English.

A: How about Kyoto and Osaka?