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furkanhans14734
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Vocabulary question

Postby furkanhans14734 » August 29th, 2013 3:09 pm

Hello everyone,
is there any difference between おなかがすきました , おなかがすく and おなかがすいた in the meaning?

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Re: Vocabulary question

Postby mewes6190 » August 29th, 2013 3:59 pm

Hello furkanhans,

there's only a grammatical difference there, as far as I can see it.

The first one says "I was hungry" in the polite form, the second says "I am hungry" in the non-polite (dictionary) form, and the last one says "I was hungry" in the non-polite (dictionary) form.

At least until I'm not overlooking something. :)

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Re: Vocabulary question

Postby community.japanese » September 11th, 2013 2:43 pm

furkanhans14734-san, Kurokuma-san,
that's right, kurokuma-san! Thank you very much!
It's a little bit difficult to compare with English because we use different tense to say the same thing.
おなかがすきました。 => "I'm hungry" in the polite form, but すきました is past tense.
おなかがすく。 => "to become hungry" in the non-polite (dictionary) form
おなかがすいた。 => "I'm (OR got/became) hungry" in the non-polite (dictionary) form.

When we say "I'm hungry" in English, the tense is non-past/present, but in Japanese, it's past tense (すきました).

Natsuko(奈津子),
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Re: Vocabulary question

Postby mewes6190 » September 11th, 2013 2:56 pm

community.japanese wrote:When we say "I'm hungry" in English, the tense is non-past/present, but in Japanese, it's past tense (すきました).

Natsuko(奈津子),
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Ah, I didn't know that!
That also lifts my confusion with ありがとうございます and ありがとうございました。 :D

So, thanks for the extra-knowledge. :)

ありがとうございました
くろくま

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