Friday, April 06, 2007

Lesson 42

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Konnichiwa minasan,

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As this title says, you can learn One Japanese word a day.

The words are casual and there are also sentences you can use to Japanese people straight away.

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Today's word

word

busaikuna

meaning

ugly

part of speechadjective
the past tense

busaiku datta

a negative sentencebusaiku janai

To look the conjugation of verb, please click here.

Example

Buta wa busaiku(desu)*.

Pigs are ugly.

buta=pig(s)

Busaiku na tori ga iru(imasu).

There is an ugly bird.

tori=bird(s)

Kare wa busaiku ja nai(desu).

He isn't ugly.

kare wa(ga)=he

Kanojo wa busaiku ja nakatta.

She wasn't ugly.

kanojo wa(ga)=she

Busaiku na e o kaita.

I drew ugly picture.

picture=e

kaku=draw/write

*Explanation of polite form
The words with green color in the bracket are polite form. For example, if only the word in bracket is green such as 'ureshii(desu) ', you can just put 'desu' after 'ureshii' so this word's polite form is '
ureshii desu'.

But if the word in the bracket and also the word before the bracket is green such as 'suteki
da(desu)', you need to change 'da' into 'desu' so this word's polite form is 'suteki desu'.


****Small test****

Q. Translate the following English sentence into Japanese.

There was an ugly pig.

If you would like to know the conjugation of verb, please click here.


A. The answer will be in a tomorrow's lesson!

****The answer of yesterday's small test****

Kare wa kakkoyokatta(desuka)?


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