which is more commonly used

[Samuraizr0]

Originally Posted by YuriTokoro

I would say ここでずいぶん待っているんだけど。This is casual.

yuri.. my appologies but i cannot read well in japanese yet.. i am working on it though..

could you maybe re type this in rromaji please..

[chryuop]

ここでずいぶん待っているんだけど=kokodezuibunmatteirundaked o

[Samuraizr0]

thanks.. i get it .. that was perfect .

[MMM]

If you couldn't read YuriTokoro's sentence, then you might be getting a little ahead of yourself in terms of grammar study. Get your hiragana and katakana down.

[Heru]

aa katakana..I know hiragana but I haven't bothered with katakana...I've been a tad lazy.

[YuriTokoro]

Originally Posted by Samuraizr0

yuri.. my appologies but i cannot read well in japanese yet.. i am working on it though..

could you maybe re type this in rromaji please..

I’m sorry; I hadn’t read the first post.
“Kokode zuibun matteirundakedo.”
I would say like this in casual.

I have been waiting here for a long time.

We call this a perfect tense.
Translating a perfect tense into Japanese is hard because Japanese doesn’t have a perfect tense.
I thought the person the subject is waiting for hasn’t appeared yet. (Is this right?) That’s why I added “dakedo” at the end of the sentence. This “dakedo” means like “the person hasn’t come yet” in this case as a shade of meaning.
One of my friends who is short temper would say, “Watashiwa kokode zuibun matteiru!!!” angrily.
I mean expressions vary from person to person.
If you want to say the subject has waited for someone for a long time when the person arrived, it will be “Kokode zuibun mattayo” This is casual too.
“Kokode”=here, “matteiru”=be waiting,
“Zuibun” is from “zuibun nagai aida”=for a very long time.
However, I say “zuibun” meaning “for a long time” in this case.
I don’t say “nagaiaida”(="for a long time” )in casual, but of course you can say it and Japanses would understand what you mean.

I told you casual expressions because when you have to be polite, you shouldn’t say a complaint!

[Samuraizr0]

ah.. I understand.. thanks to all MMM san and Yuri san and all other for your comments.. I will begin learning my reading better then work on speaking

[owakulukem]

Originally Posted by Samuraizr0

koko ni shibaraku machikatta desu

or just

shibaraku machikatta desu

You have the "machikatta" conjugation incorrect. Matsu is the verb and that in past tense is matta or machimashita.