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I am 6 days into learning Japanese, so I don't know if this makes sense but my
problem is this, I want to say, "I would rather watch that cold dream where I
died". The way I write it is

> ぼく わ むしろ それ つめたい ゆめ みる どこ しんだ (boku wa mushiro sore tsumetai yume miru doko
> shinda)

So I translated that on Google and it didn't seem to make much sense, in
particular the died part. I don't know if I need to specify again that I was
the one that died, is Google Translator just bad, or is it the placement of
shinda that's bad, maybe it needed to go before sore?
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"I would rather watch that cold dream where I died" ぼく わ むしろ それ つめたい ゆめ みる どこ しんだ
There are a number of issues with your translation. Number one, the topic-
marking particle 'wa' is generally written as は for historical reasons. Next,
それ is 'that' used similarly to a noun (like 'That is the question'); 'that'
used like an adjective is その.

Relative clauses in Japanese involve moving the verb phrase ahead of the noun
it modifies, not using a wh-question word after the noun.

Trying to stick close to your original phrasing, I think it would be

> 僕{ぼく}はむしろ自分{じぶん}の死ぬ{しぬ}その冷たい{つめたい}夢{ゆめ}を見た{みた}方{ほう}がましだ。

I think it's important to note that there isn't a one-to-one correspondence
between different languages. You can't just translate each word individually,
then put them back in the same order - often even between closely related
languages like English and Dutch.
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In response to the comment:

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> [guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/clause](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/clause)
> i read this but i don't understand in my sentence i have two verbs to die
> and to watch can only one verb go at the end?

The basic sentence is "watch a dream" which is 夢を見る.

Next you ask yourself "what sort of dream did I watch?" And the answer is "one
where I died". This is where the relative clause comes in. Let's start with a
simpler example. You also wanted it to be a 'cold dream'. So I think you would
be happy to agree that 夢 can be modified by putting 冷たい in front of it. You
can think of 冷たい夢 as 'cold dream'/'dream which is cold'/etc. They all mean the
same thing. You are probably used to nouns being modified by adjectives, but
in Japanese they can be modified by whole clauses. These are called relative
clauses. There are no words in Japanese for where/which/that when used in this
way. "X where Y" / "X which is Y" / "X that is Y" are all simply YX. Japanese
is simpler in this regard. So "dream (X) where I die (Y)" is simple 死ぬ夢. This
whole thing then behaves as a single noun which is the object of 見る i.e.
死ぬ夢をみる.
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