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I want to ask "What makes your mouth water?" in Japanese, but I'm not quite
sure what is the right way. I was thinking of saying: あなたは何でよだれが出る？
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How would you ask "What makes your mouth water?" in Japanese?
Unless it is not an idiomatic phrase, for instance probably talking to
dogs,「あなたは何{なん}でよだれが出{で}る？」might be a decent translation of "What makes your
mouth waters?"(probably 「よだれが出{で}ている」 is more appropriate since "what makes
you..." induces involuntary movement).

However, when you are asking "What is your the most favorite food?" to your
friends, probably the translation could
be「思{おも}わずよだれが出{で}る/垂{た}れる食べものは何{なん}ですか？ 」or something like that.

In Japanese, the expression could be used for not only making saliva in your
mouth but also it could be used for the symptom which is ravenously collecting
something such as a plastic model/manga/video game which is already out of
production(It is mostly expressed 「マニア垂涎{すいぜん}の品物{しなもの}」or something.
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> あなたは何でよだれが出る

Just from the writing it looks like you wrote なんで (why) but you probably
intended "nani de", right? The way you have written it, it looks like you are
saying "why does your mouth water".

To formulate your question, I would say "どういうときによだれが出るか" (literally "at what
occasions/times does your mouth water"). You could also say "どの場面" or
something, or どういう食べ物を見たらよだれが出る".

"Anata" is not a very common word in Japanese, for some reason or another, so
you probably can drop that.
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