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Unit V Grammar V - Explanation

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UNIT V. なんじに おきますか。(Nanji ni okimasu ka.

)
What time do you usually wake up?
In UNIT.V, we will learn how to make a sentence using verb as its predicate. Here, we will make intransitive
sentences (without object) first.

TENSES
1. Please read the Vocabulary first. You can find some intransitive verbs (verbs that can’t be used with
object) like NEMASU (sleep), OKIMASU (wake up), YASUMIMASU (take a rest), etc.
To learn tenses, you also need to look back to the page 11. You will use those vocabularies (page.11: Unit
II: Time) to learn tenses.

2. In GRAMMAR V.a, first we will learn how tenses work in Japanese language. There are 4 kind of tenses,
POSITIVE and NEGATIVE (will, future, habitual), then POSITIVE and NEGATIVE (past). The difference is only
in the last part of every verbs, you don’t have to change the whole words.
First, let’s take one verb, NEMASU (sleep), to make the first tenses:

a. Watashi wa maiban NEMASU.


I every night sleep = I do sleep every night.
Watashi wa ashita NEMASU.
I tomorrow sleep = I will sleep tomorrow.
b. Watashi wa maiban NEMASEN.
I every night sleep = I don’t sleep every night.
Watashi wa ashita NEMASEN.
I tomorrow sleep = I won’t sleep tomorrow.
Above, the english translation will differ depend on the ADVERBS OF TIME, not only on its verb’s
conjugation. You just have to change the last MASU into MASEN to differ the positive and the negative one.

Then, let’s make it into past tense:

a. Watashi wa kinou NEMASHITA.


I yesterday sleep = I slept yesterday.
b. Watashi wa kinou NEMASEN DESHITA.
I yesterday sleep = I didn’t sleep yesterday.

You just have to change the last MASU into MASHITA and MASEN DESHITA .

3. NOW PLEASE CHANGE SOME VERBS AND PUT IT TO THE GRAMMAR V.a BOX (page 21).
4. Please make one sentence (PAST NEGATIVE TENSE) then put it into the spreadsheet (column KTB V:A,
column number 18) and the translation next.
If you have any question, please ask me via Whatsapp group, or the via spreadsheet’s chat.
PARTICLE [NI]

1. Now we will learn how to use PARTICLE [NI] that can be used to show SPECIFIC adverb of time. You
have to look back to page.11 (Unit II. Time).
2. In GRAMMAR V.b, you have to put PARTICLE [NI] after the complement of SPECIFIC time. As you can
see in sentences above, you don’t need to put PARTICLE [NI] after the usual adverb of time (like
YESTERDAY, EVERYNIGHT, TOMORROW, etc)

So, the sentences goes like this:


SUBJECT UNSPESIFIC TIME SPECIFIC TIME + PARTICLE [NI] VERB
a. Watashi wa Ashita gogo sichi-ji NI neMASU.
I tomorrow at seven P.M will sleep
a. Watashi wa Ashita gogo sichi-ji NI neMASEN.
I tomorrow at seven P.M won’t sleep
a. Watashi wa Kinou gogo sichi-ji NI neMASU.
I yesterday at seven P.M slept
a. Watashi wa Kinou gogo sichi-ji NI neMASEN DESHITA.
I tomorrow at seven P.M didn’t sleep

3. NOW PLEASE MAKE SOME SENTENCES (with every tenses) AND PUT IT TO THE GRAMMAR V.b BOX
(page.21)
4. Then, please put your sentence (only one) into the spreadsheet (column KTB V:B, column number 19)
and the translation next.
If you have any question, please ask me via Whatsapp group, or the via spreadsheet’s chat.

PARTICLE [KARA] and PARTICLE [MADE]

1. Like you have learnt in UNIT II, PARTICLE [KARA] means FROM and PARTICLE [MADE] means TO/UNTIL.
You can use either of it to change PARTICLE [NI] before, to show FROM when or UNTIL when you do/did
something.
You can use it in any tenses. So, the sentence goes like this:
SUBJECT UNSPESIFIC TIME SPECIFIC TIME + PARTICLE [KARA] SPECIFIC TIME + PARTICLE [MADE] VERB
Ben-san wa Ashita gozen sichi-ji KARA gozen ku-ji MADE neMASU.
Mr.Ben Tomorrow from seven A.M until nine A.M sleep.

3. NOW PLEASE MAKE SOME SENTENCES (with every tenses) AND PUT IT TO THE GRAMMAR V.c BOX
(page.21)
4. Then, please put your sentence (only one) into the spreadsheet (column KTB V:C, column number 20)
and the translation next.
If you have any question, please ask me via Whatsapp group, or via spreadsheet’s chat.

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