I was able to go to the campus festival, and it was fun.(Lesson 41)
You can express ability or potential if you use the dictionary form of verbs, and attach to it KOTO GA DEKIMASU (can do / Litellary, can do the thing of). Let's make a sentence, using KOTO GA DEKIMASU....
View ArticleI wonder which is the most delicious.(Lesson 42)
When you compare three or more things, you express the best of them by saying it is ICHIBAN (the best, the most, number one). Then, what do you say, for example, when you want to say "it is the most...
View ArticleWhy do you think it is?(Lesson 43)
You use DESHÔ at the end of a sentence, when you talk about a prediction for the future or something uncertain. When you use it in combination with nouns or adjectives, you replace DESU at the end of a...
View ArticleAfter you eat Japanese cakes, you drink powdered green tea.(Lesson 44)
In Lesson 16, you learned to express more than one action in one sentence by linking the TE-form of verbs. If you add the particle KARA (after), after the TE-form of verbs, you can make it clear that...
View ArticleHappy Birthday!(Lesson 45)
First of all, please note that both AGEMASU and KUREMASU mean "to give." And MORAIMASU means "to get," "to receive" or "to be given." In Japanese, you choose which of them to use, depending on which is...
View ArticleI'm happy to be able to see snow, before I go back to my country.(Lesson 46)
MAE NI (before) is an expression to emphasize what you do or did before doing something else. Verbs take the dictionary form, when they are followed by MAE NI (before). Even if a sentence as a whole is...
View ArticleTo be a Japanese language teacher is my dream.(Lesson 47)
To change verbs into nouns, you add NO or KOTO to the plain forms of verbs, such as the dictionary form or the TA-form. Let me explain this, using the sentence in the skit that means "To be a Japanese...
View ArticleThank you very much for everything.(Lesson 48)
You have been learning basic Japanese for one year. As you have noticed, we choose either the polite or the casual way of speaking, depending on our relation with the listener. Anna always speaks in...
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