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How would you say “I played well”? I wrote **よく 遊びました** , which is **よい**
_(good)_ in the adverb form and then **遊ぶ** _(to play)_ in polite past but the
translation comes out as “I played a lot”. What am i doing wrong?

Also, do y’all recommend any particular app for japanese translations?
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grammar nuances verbs adjectives adverbs
How to say “I played well”?
First of all, よい is an adjective already. I can see you tried to make it an
adverb by adding く、but the adverb よく means often when used with 遊【あそ】ぶ in a
sentence.

Secondly, the word 遊【あそ】ぶ on its own usually means play as in "kids play" kind
of play. So you need a more specific verb other than 遊【あそ】ぶ if that’s not the
case, but if you want to say you played well (as in nicely) with other kids,
you would say something like 仲【なか】良【よ】く 遊【あそ】んだ。

If you mean play, as in "played the piano", then you’d say ピアノが 上手【うま】く (or
上手【じょうず】に) 弾【ひ】けた。

You could say 〜が上手【うま】くいった ("〜 went well") instead, then you could add pretty
much anything you do, such as: 野球【やきゅう】が上手【うま】くいった, or ゲームが上手【うま】くいった, or even
デートが上手【うま】くいった！
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