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Shitokan to akan yo! Article 3 Tips on modern colloquial Japanese grammar. By Makurasuki sensei and

This article shows a colloquial use of a certain Japanese grammar for the verb must.

should+verb

nakute wa narimasen,

Narimasen is shortened to naranai and finally naran

must + Verb nakereba narimasen

must + Verb nakucha naranai

must + nakya verb naran (ikenai,ikan)

Other ideas about how it has evolved into the form will become apparent.

The Japanese grammar for, ssubject has to The verb is usually taught in 2 to 3 different forms, all based on the IV + BA negative conditional base. In other words, there are 2-3 ways to say the imperative verb.

If ~ verb then not good.

(It will not go well, nor will it sit well with someone, etc.). (~-no)

Ex. 1. If you don’t drink your medicine, it won’t be good for you.

Kusuri or nomanakereba narimasen.

.A literal translation could be – If you don’t drink your medicine, that’s not very appropriate. It will never work if you don’t take your medicine.

In more modern American English: You have to take your medicine. You must take your medicine.

Ex. 2. We must go! We have to go!

Ikanakya ikenai!

A literal translation could be – If we don’t go, it won’t go well.

In more modern American English it becomes – We better get out of here!

We’d better get going! We better get it!

Ex. 3. You have to do it. You must do it. You’re going to have to. You better do it now or you’ll regret not doing it later!

Shitokan to akan yo!

Now, the last sentence comes from Hakata, Tenjin, Ropponmatsu, Hakata area dialect of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. We can label it pure Hakata Ben, or speak Hakata. Native as a native you can get the grammar principle. Nowhere else on the web can you get this modern observation of the Japanese language. Directly from the best Japanese teachers, the Japanese themselves. This never-before-seen dialect in textbook form appears to you now. Study this and be way ahead of your peers in Japanese language skills. This expression is Hakata Ben in its purest and highest form. It also gives us the added grammatical bonus of the Base-TE verb +oku, make verb for later.

If we go back from the more polite form of the negative conditional verb, we start with

Ikimasen-ikanai-ikan-akan- or iken depending on how much the speaker feels the task is doable.

• I-based verb +nakute wa narimasen. Which is also understood in a simpler way, a less formal way would say Verbbase1 + nakute wa naranai, ikanai, or further simplified by saying naran or ikan. 2. Verb + nakereba narimasen. in the negative conditional (eg, ikanakereba narimasen) Japanese usage The grammar lesson is given in part by my ex-girlfriend’s mother. Modern Japanese with an interesting slant.
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