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For example, if I wanted to say "the fear of drowning" or "the desire to do
something" in Japanese, how would I do that?

> 溺れるという恐怖？ 何かしたいという気持ち？

These two sentences sound correct to me (please feel free to say otherwise)
but is there a way that may sound more natural and shorter?
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How do you build the equivalent of an English noun phrase in Japanese?
I'm Japanese.

It sounds perfectly correct to me too.

But you can omit the word "という".

The following phrases sound correct too.

  * 溺れる恐怖
  * 何かしたい気持ち

# feeling but digress

Strictly speaking, "desire" is often translated as "欲求", "欲望" and things like
that.[ref](https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/desire)

These are little stronger than "気持ち".
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