What does あめだ mean?
it's in an exercise in Genki 1, chapter 8.1, B, 2 in a section about conjugating adjectives. I know あめ is rain, but the context suggests a na adjective?

Question

What does あめだ  mean?
it's in an exercise in Genki 1, chapter 8.1, B, 2 in a section about conjugating adjectives.  I know あめ is rain, but the context suggests a na adjective?

Answer

ame desu/ame da = it's rain  (da is just the casual form of desu)
ame desu ka?/ame na no?   =  Is it rain?   ...so,  da can replaced with na in this way.

ganbatte ne!

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Hi!
It literally means "It's rain". But it's actually indicating that it's raining at the moment.

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Hello Sharon.
The exercise is to change the words into the negatives.
The followings are some answers;
ゆうめい→ゆうめいじゃない
あめだ→あめじゃない
いそがしい→いそがしくない
かわいい→かわいくない
みじかい→みじかくない
しんせつだ→しんせつじゃない
and so on.

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