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I am practicing coming up with some random sentences to practice my Japanese,
sadly I'm using Google translator to check out if my sentence is right. Now
the following sentence

私はあなたが好きです

I understand that the が particle is telling like "you are the one I like"
referring to あなた. At this point Google translation is OK. But when I try to
replace あなた for something else, the sentence gets all messed up, and it seems
that Google will only understand the sentence if I remove the が particle. So
my sentence would be:

寒い日に私はコーヒを飲むが好きです

But Google will only understand it if I remove が [寒い日に私はコーヒーを飲む好きです]

Why is that? Why replacing あなた for コーヒーを飲む makes the sentence change so that I
need to remove が
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Weird behavior ga particle
Google Translate was confused because you failed to add a **nominalizer**. A
verb cannot be the object of "like" unless properly nominalized in English,
either. See: [Question with this sentence
わたしはえをみるのがすきです](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/29367/5010)

You cannot trust Google Translate in general, but it works at least with your
sample.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AWcPC.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AWcPC.png)

寒い日に私はコーヒーを飲む好きです (the third sentence above) is grammatically wrong (actually
it looks the worst among the three), but Google Translate successfully
"guessed" its meaning. After all, it's not designed to point out the
grammatical error in the original sentence. Don't use Google Translate to
check if your sentence is grammatically okay.

By the way, you're seeing "but" in the second example above because
`dictionary-form-of-a-verb + が` is [one of the ways to say "but" in
Japanese](https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-lessons/japanese-grammar-
exercises-expressing-contradiction/).
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