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My friend and I are making sentences from English to Japanese.

We are trying to turn this sentence into Japanese:

> I think he's 23 years old, I'm not sure however.

We came up with:

> 思う彼は23歳。分かりませんだけど。
>
> Omou kare wa 23sai. Wakarimasen dakedo.

and

> 思う彼は23歳だけど、分かりません。
>
> Omou kare wa 23sai dakedo, wakarimasen.

Which of these sentences are grammatically correct? If both were wrong, what
would be the correct way to say it in Japanese?
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translation english-to-japanese grammar
Which Japanese sentence is grammatically correct?
There are quite a few ways you could go about phrasing this, depending on the
nuance/context, but pretty plainly:

彼は２３歳だと思うけど、わからない。 (lit. I think he is 23 years old, but I don't know.)

The 思う has to come at the end of the phrase; in your examples, it modifies the
彼, which would mean "he who thinks" or similar.
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