If the speaker is seeking the conformation on what he is saying from the listener, ~ね could be used. Statement often end with the tags ~ね/~よ、depending on the conversation of the speaker and listener. When we have to connect two related nouns then とーparticle is used in between two nouns. It comes with the ending point or ending time. It comes with the starting point or starting time. Question form works similarly like です。We will add か at the end of ますverb. The へ-particle will be discussed in lesson 5. i.e, if the noun doesn’t contain numeral we don’t use にーparticle. Note: にーparticle cannot follow time expression such as きょう、せんしゅう、ことし、and so on. Now let us use ます verb to create a sentence. It is like “in, on, at” for english language. It indicates a point in time when something takes place. But in this lesson we will use it to indicate time. It is mainly used to indicate a location, time, movement or purpose. This will be more clear after we read にーparticle and make some example. Like です form let us look different forms in table. ますform are used to make the sentence polite similarly like です。We will learn impolite form in lesson 20. It is used to express the habitual thing and truth. The word tomorrow only made us recognize the sentence as a future tense. There are other different factor to distinguish the past tense verb and future tense verb. Future tense and present tense use the same verb. But in Japanese we have verb for present tense and past tense only. でした and じゃありませんでした is just another form of です。In english, we have verb for present tense, past tense and future tense. We learnt about です and じゃありません in lesson 1. In this case we use はーparticle after place name. Suppose your relative or friends are in different country and you want to ask what time is it now in the place they live. But in Japanese ごぜん and ごご are kept at first before time like in example.įor saying half past, we use はん. In english format, a.m and p.m are kept at last after time. When we say what time is it now, the answer may come like above format. Lets us begin with asking question and answering them. because we will be learning about time in this lesson. Now let us take one Date of Birth and translate it in Japanese.ġ996/Feb/21: セん きゅうひゃく きゅうじゅう ろく ねん にがつ にじゅういちにちĪll the above table are related to time and are crucial in this grammar section. But the number containing 4,7 and 9 has exception. After that you use “counting +にち” format. We have different system to say the day up to number ten. It is also said ひ。But theirs use are different according to case. Congratulation, now you can say your birthday after you learning day table. Month in Japanese is said to be がつ。 Englishĭay table is given below.
#Minna no nihongo lesson 3 how to
Let us see now how to say 12 months in Japanese. This is the exception and continue up to 60 minute. The value with ふん are the number having 2,5,7 and 9. We wont be seeing all the sixty minutes, but some only. The exception is ふんand ぶん。We will see that with the table too. Minute is said to be ぷん。But there are exception. The last one have been used in hour table for the value 4,7,9,14,17,19 and 24. In counting we learnt that the number 4,7 and 9 has two value. The bold part are the exception in the hour table. In Japan twenty four hour system is used mostly. One is twelve hour and the other is twenty four hour. Hour in Japanese is じ。We have two ways to look at the clock. Since we will be reading about time, we should know how to say time( hour, minute and second) in Japanese. Time in Japanese is じかん。 Let us start one by one. So memorize it before reading the grammar. The vocabulary listed below play significant role in learning grammar section of this lesson. Like wise other lesson let us start with vocabulary. In this lesson we will learn about time, に particle and ます form.