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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! The Japanese grammar guru is back! Today a new grammatical structure using the potential verb dekiru is introduced. This useful structure will allow you to express the potential of any verb without conjugating the verb itself! Inside the PDF, we have a detailed breakdown of this construction, so don’t miss this one!
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16 Responses to “Beginner Lesson #77 - What Can Your Baby Do?”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, Today’s location is ラオス・Raosu. Hello to all of our listeners in Laos! Grammar buffs rejoice, as today’s lesson includes a very useful construction! Let us know what you think! Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!
Wednesday at 10:30 pm
Great dialog - just as real life.
As father of two (half-) japanese boys i´d like to have more of this.
赤ん坊のおむつを取りかえる 【あかんぼうのおむつをとりかえる】
おむつを替える 【おむつをかえる】
and so on, perhaps more half- japanese families listening?
Hanspeter
Wednesday at 10:34 pm
皆さん、お子さん was the word we were talking about in todays lesson. It consists of the Kanji for child -子 plus the honorific prefix o- and suffix -san.
Wednesday at 10:38 pm
Hanspeterさん、must have just missed you.
Thanks for all the help in the forum! It is truly appreciated.
Glad you liked the dialogue! We’ll try to have more of these, and some other topics too! Anything topic in particular?
Thursday at 12:35 am
This lesson were really good, I was just going to ask the question about dekiru and other verbs added to this one but I listened to this first and you took all of my questions up. Arigatou gozaimashita. Watashi wa nihongo wo katarimasu koto ga dekimasu (Maybe this is right
)
Anyway, excellent lesson.
Thursday at 2:44 am
JockZonさん
Watashi wa nihongo wo kataru koto ga dekimasu.
私は日本語を語ることが出来ます
Thursday at 2:45 am
I think thats right. It’s what I was taught. You were very close
Thursday at 5:03 am
Yeah, so you should use the Plain Affirmative before koto ga dekimasu?
Thursday at 5:16 am
JockZonさん
yeah, you just need to use plain affirmative (simple form)
This website might be helpful
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/dekiru.htm
Thursday at 12:02 pm
Only plain affirmative nonpast?
Can you say “話さないことができますか?” to mean “Can you not speak?”
Thursday at 2:37 pm
I like your pod cast, just read about in on a blog and figured I would take a look.
More english descriptions followed by the Japanese would be good to have. Also making it interactive, where I can test my own progress would be handy.
じゃあまた
Thursday at 2:50 pm
Takeさん、
When are you going to start using 「さん」?
Peterさん、
I am willing to offer terms of peace.
-Daniel B
Thursday at 9:30 pm
Harv-san very good page, a lot of useful information!
Very good lesson as always! Greetings to everyone!
Friday at 12:17 am
Baka neko….
In the case of “can you not speak?” you would add the negative to the dekiru verb not the hanasu verb. Same for all other conjugations so instead of:
話さないことができますか?
It would be:
hanasu koto ga dekimasenka?
same for past conjugation:
hanasu koto ga dekimasendeshita
(I couldn’t speak)
This is a common grammar point in Japanese. Whenever you link verbs together the conjugation goes on the last verb.
Friday at 8:12 am
Oh, but aren’t the two statements “Can you not speak?” and “Can’t you speak?” saying different things?
How would you express these two statements in Japanese?
Sunday at 5:17 am
可愛い赤ちゃんですね。有難うございます。
今日は、今日は、あれ、
この赤ちゃんは話すことができませんか。まだ、一歳です、まだ話すことはできません。
歩くことができますか。いええ、歩くことができません。でもハイハイすることが出来ます。
それだけですか。つまらないですか。
そんなことはありません。ほら、
わあ、可愛い笑顔ですね。
また、明日。
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