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Past tense


Negative past tense

Mashita


Masendeshita

What did you do (yesterday)

(Kinou) naniwo shimashitaka

Sentence connection using and

Soshite

Which


Ex. Which one is it


Ex. Ans: it is this one

Dore どれ


Dore desuka


Ans: koredesu

Who


Ex. Whos pen is this


Ex. Ans: this is johns pen

Dare だれ


Korewa dare no pendesuka


Ans: john no pen desu

Two types of adjectives


Positive forms


Negative forms

Na and i adjectives


Clean, famous fine (kiirei, yuumei, rippa) are na adj.


Positive: (i adjective) desu.


(Na adj.)na desu.


Negative: (i adj.)(change i to ku)naidesu


(Na adj.)jyanaidesu


General places: here, there, over there


Ex. My pen is here. (What is shortened version)


Ex. Where is my pen

Here: koko


There: soko


Ove there: asoko


(Note that theyre similar to doko)


Ex. Watashi no penwa koko ni arimasu


(Short vers. Is kokodesu)


Ex. Watashi no penwa doko ni arimasuka

Changes when talking about general locations of living things and imanimate objects


Ex. He is in the library.


Ex. It is in the library.

Living things: sentence ends with imasu


Inanimate: sentence ends with arimasu


Ex. Toshyokan ni imasu


Ex. Toshyokan ni arimasu

What kind of


Ex. What kind of pen is it


Ans. It is black

Donna どんな


Ex. Donna pen desuka


Ans. (Korewa) Kuroidesu

Very


Not very


Positives? Negatives?


Ex. It is very small


Ex. It is not very small

Totemo (positive)


Amari (negative. Use janaidesu, etc)


Ex. Totemo chisai desu


Ex. Amari chisakunaidesu