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I'm trying to read a children's book and have already gotten stumped by the
first sentence. " _context_ " The picture shows an autumn day.

It reads:

> ある つめたい かぜの ふく ひ。

So far I've got ... (chilly wind blow)...

At first I thought ある was 'walk' and the grammar made no sense to me, but have
then realized walk should instead be あるく. Also, ひ made no sense either. So
looking up ある on Jisho I found that together あるひ (ある日) means "one day".

Is it correct to assume that ある and 日 can be split apart grammatically?

> **ある** **(** 冷たい 風の 吹く **)** **日** 。

And if that's the case would **:** One day, a chilly wind blew. =/= A chilly
wind blew, one day. **:** be correct?
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Need help translating a sentence - あるひ?
You are on the right track.

In this case, 「ある」 and 「ひ」 should be regarded as two independen words rather
than 「あるひ」 split into two parts.

「ある」, all by itself, can mean "one ~~" or "a certain ~~" (and it is used at
the beginning of virtually every children's story.)

「ある つめたい かぜの ふく ひ」 is a relative clause (not a sentence) in which both 「ある」
and 「つめたいがぜのふく」 modify 「ひ」.

"One cold and windy day."
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In this case, 「つめたい かぜの ふく」 is a noun
modifier[(1)](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/subclause.html)[(2)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/11975/3035)
for 日.

Basically, the verb clause the precedes the noun modifies it in a similar way
to "that" in English. For example (from the references above):

> ボブは、いつも勉強する人だ。  
>  = Bob is an always-does-studying person.  
>  = Bob is a person who always studies.

In the same way, 「つめたい かぜの ふく」 is modifying 日.

> つめたい かぜの ふく 日  
>  = cold-wind-blows day  
>  = day that a cold wind blew

You are correct that the phrase is ある日, but the day is qualified by saying
_what kind of day_ it is. (That is, it is a day when a cold wind is blowing.)

> ある つめたい かぜの ふく ひ  
>  = One cold-wind-blowing day

Keep in mind that having a 。 at the end does not translate as a sentence to
English, but marks the end of a clause. (i.e. In this context you would not
just say "One day.")

> ある つめたい かぜの ふく ひ。・・・  
>  = One cold, windy day, ...
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