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Lesson Transcript

Do you know how to express opinions about past experience in Japanese?
Welcome to Three Step Japanese Practice by JapanesePod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to express opinions about past experience.
Let’s look at the main dialogue.
Two people are having a conversation.
あ～､きょうとりょこう､たのしかったです｡ おばあちゃん､ ありがとう｡
Ā, Kyōto ryokō, tanoshikatta desu. Obāchan, arigatō.
Ah, the Kyoto trip was fun. Grandma, thank you.
いえいえ｡
何が　いちばん　よかったですか｡
Ie ie. Nani ga ichi-ban yokatta desu ka.
No, no. What was the best part?
さくらが　いちばん　よかったです｡おばあちゃんは？
Sakura ga ichi-ban yokatta desu. Obāchan wa?
The cherry blossoms were the best. What about you, Grandma?
In this sentence, they use the word "よかった" as an adjective to describe the cherry blossoms. "よかった" is the past tense form of いい (ii), and is an "i-adjective." When an i-adjective is put into the past tense, it ends with -った (-tta).
Na-adjectives remain the same, but the です (desu) becomes でした (deshita).
Let’s practice with this grammar more in this lesson.

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