Comments on: Newbie Lesson S5 #18 - Won’t You Get Hungry If You Don’t Eat in Japan?

by: hugues c

Wed, 02 May 2012 14:31:02 +0000

すみません、先生　わかりません。

Usually your lesson notes are well explained and i have no problem understanding the grammar rules. But I just don’t get the difference between using anai and wanai. You are saying that if the verbs end in -u we have to use wanai…but in your exemple don’t they all finish in u? ik(u),nom(u), tsuka(u),ka(u)????

一助　お願い
(help please):???:

by: トーマス

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:29:25 +0000

今年日本へ行かない。今日レモンを食べない。アイスティーをぜんぜん飲まない。今月セーターを買わない。

by: Jessi

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:26:14 +0000

Hi Ryan,
There are 5 JLPT levels, with N5 being the easiest, and N1 being the hardest. The negative form of verbs and adjectives is tested on N5

by: Ryan

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:23:49 +0000

Is there a JLPT Level 0? What level is 否定形?

by: 王凱

Mon, 23 May 2011 19:58:48 +0000

やったー、お昼休みだ。
ケント、学食に行く。
行かない。
なんで。
サッカーするから。
ふーん、お腹空かないの。
後でパン買うよ。じゃあね。

じゃあね。

by: Sora

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:36:29 +0000

:chainsaw:?

by: Sora

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:34:46 +0000

XD
I just go listening to words!

by: cupcake

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:57:22 +0000

yatta ! i managed to learn some japanese grammar ^^

arigato

by: Ken

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:28:48 +0000

Cant access this as well, it just says buffering

by: Karen

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:14:54 +0000

Naomi Sensei, thank you very much.
わかりました。
JLPT N4はがんばります。
ありがとうございます。

by: Naomi

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:06:39 +0000

Karen-san
In modern Japanese the syllable ji and zu should be written in じ and ず as a general rule. However there are words traditionally written ぢ and づ. For those exceptions, you basically have to memorize one by one.The reason WHY they’re used is varies depending on the word. Here’s the general rules.
●　It tends to appear in the sound succession
ex)ちぢむ　つづく.
●　When the word made up of two words and the latter word starts with ち　or じ
ex) 竹筒（たけづつ） →　たけ＋つつ、　鼻血（はなぢ） →はな　＋　ち

>>“I cannot don’t cry”
Is your question regarding “double negative”? To form double negative sentence, you need to know basic Japanese grammar and verb conjugation, but here’s the sentence pattern to say “Can’t not…”.
[ Naiform of a verb ] koto wa dekinai.
Nakanai koto wa dekinai.= I can’t not cry.]

I hope this helps.

Jason -san
いいですね。

by: Sylwek

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:51:01 +0000

You could make a volume bar in the lesson player.:)

by: Jason

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:39:48 +0000

It’s a holiday today, so…
仕事に行かない！

by: Karen

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:03:55 +0000

Hi,

I’ve a question about certain kanas that were used. I posted this comment in Kantan Kana but didn’t got a reply.
I’ve always have this question in mind. Sometimes when I read Japanese books or text book, I came across づ in words such as つづく（to continue) and also sometimes ぢis used instead of じ。Can you please explain why sometimes these two different words are used? However, I also realized that usually じandつ are used.

And also, if we want to use negative for a negative, how do we go about doing it?
Eg, sometimes, when our parents punish us, they always ask us not to cry and our response may be “I cannot don’t cry”
So how do we say that in Japanese?

Karen

by: JapanesePod101.com

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:30:00 +0000

In this lesson, we learned the negative form of some verbs - now you can talk about what you are not going to do! Why don’t you tell us something you aren’t going to do in the comment section below?