How do you ask informal questions in Japanese?
How do you ask informal questions in Japanese?
For informal questions, you can make question phrases by taking a casual form sentence and adding ka at the end. However, this can sometimes sound rude or masculine so be careful to know the right situations. ご飯食べるか？…In this case, you don’t have to add any question words or ka.
- 映画見る？
- Eiga miru?
- Wanna watch a movie?
What is darou?
Darou is a plain form of deshou, and means “will probably.” The adverb tabun (“perhaps”) is sometimes added.
How do you form the past tense in Japanese?
Past tense of Japanese i-adjectives needs some modifications to the suffixes. For past affirmative form, remove the い (i) in the い-adjective and replace it with かったです (katta desu). For past negative form, remove the い (i) in the い-adjective and replace it with くなかったです (kunakatta desu) or くありませんでした (kuarimasen deshita).
How do you ask a question in plain form in Japanese?
The plain question marker か allows you to just ask yes or no while the connotative question marker の allows you to clarify something that you doubt about. You may sometimes be rude if you suddenly try to clarify something without contexts.
What does Desune mean?
“desu ne” is a meaningless, yet full of meaning, phrase. Following an adjective, such as “ii” or “kirei”, it is seeking the agreement of the listener…but depending on the tone of voice, it can either be asking for agreement or presuming agreement: きれいです。 It’s pretty. きれいですね。
Is mashita past tense?
Although you have learned “-mashita” as a past tense form, that is not the only way of using it. It is also used to describe present conditions. B) ‘-mashita’ or ta-form is generally used when you want to describe a physical / mental condition.
What is mashita?
It’s like, in English, we have “to eat”, present, “ate”, past. In Japanese, we have taberu 食べる, present, tabeta 食べた, past, tabemasu 食べます, present polite, and tabemashita 食べました, past polite. So masu is present polite and mashita is the past tense of masu.
