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Learning Japanese
I should write down some short Japanese sentences that I learned to practise.
これは なんですか。
これは 猫ですか。
いいえ、犬です。
これは、犬じゃないですか/ね。
はい/ええ/そう、犬じゃないです。
じゃ、なんですか。
兎です。
兎ですか。
兎じゃないです。
じゃ、なんですか。
かいるです。
and a useful phrase...
私はとデエトデートしませんか?
Do you mean "will you go on a date with me?"
Using ませんか means "won't you" which is a suitable way to use if you're asking someone to do something but if you mean "I did not" then ませんか would be inappropriate.
ます non-past tense
ました past-tense
たいです desiderative
ください imperative
i don't know when to use たいです and ください although i've heard the latter being used more often in anime.
たいです means want to. So したいです means I want to do.
ください means please. This is used towards someone else when you're asking them to do something. You usually put a て-form in front of ください. してください means please do (something).
negative forms
ません
ませんでした
たくないです
でください
that's what my handbook says but i'm not sure what negative form means? the above sentence uses ません to ask someone for a date so i'm guessing the negative form is used when you are not sure about the outcome and you use ます to kind of confirm that you are going?
ません is negative but when paired with か(question mark), it means won't you.
Using ません -> たべません means do not eat/did not eat.
Using ませんか -> たべませんか means won't you eat?
ませんか is a polite way of asking someone to do something.
who
どなた・だれ
example:だれがいきますか
what
なん/なに・何
example:今何時ですか
in this example you read 何 as NAN, not NANI. So it will be "ima nanji desuka"
when
いつ
example: 誕生日はいつですか
いついきますか
where
どこ
お手洗いはどこですか
why
なぜ・どうして
病気はどうして私お選んだのだろう (from Jap drama リツトルの涙)
how
どう
これは、いくらですか
that's all for now. feel free to correct me if you read this.
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