[7C] "May I look at this?"

[LularLollelSquiller]

If someone is lost, you can think of -te kudasai as "give me *blank*", like... Hey you, give me sit. Not as in them giving you a seat to sit down, but them sitting down for you. That may have been more confusing actually.

[alecesne]

Does anyone know where to get the transcripts for these videos online? I'm really grateful to Aploosh for posting them, they're wonderful, extremely helpful :)

[Aploosh]

@alecesne

The transcripts are in the textbooks, which you can download from the links on my channel or from video [1A]. I'm glad the videos are helpful!

[babytink019]

I'm getting the hang of it but I need to re-watch the videos to learn the new vocab.

[gokharol]

I think kadasaimasen is used in a sentence where uwould say: wouldn't you want to do this for me?

or maybe not ...^^'

[Tran295]

can anyone please tell me the word between kudasai and kudasaimasen

and why sumimasen have to add ga behind

Thank you

[GacktsMessenger]

Kudasai is the regular way to make a request of someone, kadasaimasen is a nicer way to do so. "Ga" after sumimasen is like saying "Pardon me "but" may i do this". ga can actually be omitted.

[magorody1987]

doumo arigatou kono video wa totemo tanoshikute omoshiroi desune.

みんなさん　気をつけって

楽しい　ビデオ　でよう

[larok21]

They're losing me. i think i need to watch these episodes again.

[fynnfish]

Don't give up *go go* :D

[Nitsua177]

little confusing but i think i'm getting it. I'll have to rewatch these lessons probably though

[SpiritsFeliz]

he's like' can i use a pencil and then the other guy says 'no use a pen' right?

[Bobstew68]

Yeah, I think. "Pen de kaite kudasai." I assume for now that "de" as a particle indicates doing the verb *with* the noun (ie. write with the pen) while "o" indicates doing the verb *to* the noun (ie. open the window). I don't know for sure, though. Maybe you know now, since it's 10 months ago?

[tosh1988]

domo arigato! we have learned so much and it's only the 7th episode lol. this is fun and challenging at the same time.

[ZShakib]

is te and temo used only by a male speaker

and de and demo only used by a female speaker? thats my guess or am i wrong??? ^^U

[shredder32]

"de" and "te" are the same form (usually just called the "te" form). It's just that certain verbs are conjugated with "-de" instead of "-te". If they end with "gu" "bu" "mu" or "nu", they get the "-de" instead of "-te" Why? As far as I know, it just sounds "better" that way in Japanese. (Same reason Spanish has verb stem changing verbs).

Some examples:

oyogu (to swim)=oyoide

yobu (to call)=yonde

nomu (to drink)=nonde

shinu (to die)=shinde

[ZShakib]

oh thx! ^^

[shawnzer06crahan]

So, temo ii desu ka? is used when he/she asks for permssion to do something and te kudasai menas he/she asks someone to do something, but what's the difference between de and te?

[FlingNdirt]

I was a little nervous watching Yan handle those models!

I thought the next episode was going to be..

"Yan files for unemployment"

[Shahrizade]

im getting more lost as this lessons progress :( how do we know when to us te, de, temo, demo?

[dw3041]

I think verbs end in 'de' or 'te' if someone else is doing the action and 'demo' or 'temo' if you are doing the action. I don't know if they went over the difference between 'te' and 'de' verbs yet, but my guess is that one is an action verb and the other is not, like 'walk' verses 'is'. I could be way off on this though.

[TakahashiMaikeru]

You're way off. "de" and "te" are the same thing. They're both "te-form" ... Whether a verb in te-form ends in de or te depends on what the last kana of the infinitive is. For instance, it's 読んで, not 読んて.

泳ぐ、呼ぶ、飲む、死ぬ、遊ぶ、 etc are conjugated to te-form with a de ending.

[5470462]

domo gosaimazu

[edwin400fma]

thanks this helps alot!! sugoi!!!

[Swerty25]

Thx so much it is gettng to be more my pace

[eljupe]

Está de pinga este. ii des, aprendi alguillo. arigato sensei desu.

[Poppable]

ありがとございます。＾＾