Japanese you can do without?
Learn Japanese easily! Your Japanese is progressing very well, so keep up the good work. Are you ready to tell your friends: “I’ve been learning Japanese quickly online without missing a single great article!” Consider how that sentence is constructed and how often it says things that are similar. For example, “I’ve been working hard without taking a break” and “You’ve been talking for hours without listening to a word I said.” This type of prayer is obviously extremely important. Learn how to say it in Japanese and everyone will notice how much your Japanese has improved. That’s why this Japanese for Beginners article is a must read. It shows you how to use sentences formed like “do [clause 1] without doing [clause 2].” The possibilities for what you will learn in this article are endless. As a bonus, learn vocabulary words like sakki (“long time”), meeru (“email”), and many others you won’t know how you managed without. This Japanese for Beginners article helps you improve your Japanese in a fun and easy way!
Vocabulary: In this article, you will learn the following words and phrases:
satoo – “sugar”
pissed off – “put, turn on” (class two verb)
nor kai – “second floor”
arubamu – “album”
go have – “cooked rice, food”
yurusu – “allow, allow” (class one verb)
motorcycle – “inefficient, slow”
uwagi – “coat jacket”
sushi already – “sushi shop, sushi restaurant, sushi chef”
iwai – “celebration, party”
sakki – “long time”
mine of – “With everyone”
Grammar: In this article, you will learn the following words and phrases:
Vocabulary and useful phrases
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sakki kara
“all this time, for some time”
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sakki – “long time”
Kara – “since then”
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Example
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- Miu wa sakki kara waratteiru. “He’s been laughing for some time now.”
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Sushi-ya ni ikuzo.
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zo is a sentence-final particle indicating emphasis and is used primarily by male speakers. please report that zo not usually attached to –from his Prayed –masu final sentences.
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Training
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Verb
- not past Sushi-ya ni iku. ? Sushi-ya ni ikuzo.
- Past Sushi-ya ni itta. ? Sushi-ya ni itta zo.
–me end adjective
- not past Sushi wa takai. ? Sushi wa takaizo.
- Past Sushi wa takakatta. ? Sushi wa takakatta zo.
–n/a end adjective
- not past Sushi-ya wa nigiyaka da. ? Sushi-ya wa nigiyaka da zo.
- Past Sushi-ya wa nigiyaka datta. ? Sushi-ya wa nigiyaka datta zo.
Noun
- not past Ken wa sushi-ya da. ? Ken wa sushi-ya da zo.
- Past Ken wa sushi-ya datta. ? Ken wa sushi-ya datta zo.
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Today’s target phrase
(Otoo-san wa) nanimo iwanaide arubamu or miteiru.
“The father has been looking at the photo album without saying anything.”
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The focus of today’s article is the “[clause 1: Informal negative form of verb X / –nai form of verb X] of [clause 2]”construction”, which we can roughly translate as “make [clause 2]without doing [clause 1].”
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Prize Construction
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[verb X] born of [verb Y]
Do [verb Y] without doing [verb X]
*The informal negative verb conjugation? For more details, check out Season 4 Beginner Article 23, “Please Don’t Do This!”
formal speech
[Subject] wow / [Informal negative form] of / [Verb].
Piitaa wa / nenai de / hatarakimasu.
Piitaa wa / nenai de / hatarakimashita.
Watashi wa/meeru or yomanai de/keshimasu.
Watashi wa/meeru or yomanai de/keshimashita.
Haruya wa / asa-gohan or tabenai de / kaisha ni ikimasu.
Haruya wa / asa-gohan or tabenai de / kaisha ni ikimashita.
*neru – “sleep”
*hataraku – “to work”
*meeru – “Email”
*yomu – “read”
*kesu – “delete, turn off”
informal speech
[Subject] wow / [Informal negative form] of / [Verb].
Pt wa / nenai de / hataraku.
Pt wa / nenai de / hataraita.
Watashi wa/mru or yomanai de/kesu.
Watashi wa/mru or yomanai de/keshita.
Haruya wa / asa-gohan or tabenai de / kaisha ni iku.
Haruya wa / asa-gohan or tabenai de / kaisha ni itta.
*Note that “[verb; informal negative form] of“He doesn’t change for politeness or tenacity.
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Practice 1
Please join the following clauses using born of.
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Example: [ watashi wa] [ terebi o miru] [ hataraku]
? Watashi wa terebi or hataraku minai.
- [ watashi wa] [ hataraku ] [asobu] ?________________________________________________________________
- [Jon wa] [ terebi o miru] [ benky shiteimasu] ?________________________________________________________________ (*benky suru “for study”)
- [ Jon wa] [ neru ] [ benky shimasu] ?________________________________________________________________