YOU SAID:
I ate 20 pieces of cake.
INTO JAPANESE
私は20本のケーキを食べた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I ate 20 cakes.
INTO JAPANESE
私は20種類のケーキを食べた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I ate 20 kinds of cakes.
INTO JAPANESE
20 種類のケーキを食べました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I had 20 kinds of cakes.
INTO JAPANESE
きょう突然 浮かんで来たと言うか
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I had a kind of epiphany today.
INTO JAPANESE
きょう突然 浮かんで来たと言うか
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I had a kind of epiphany today.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.