Japanese Verb lesson 3

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Uploaded by on Aug 26, 2008

http://www.talksushi.com/ - Learn the simple past tense verb form.

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  • @priestvanglak san

    thanks for the answer :)

  • @MrGoldnSilver

    verbs ending in "TA" instead of "SHITA" are in the plain past tense. The former is informal and commonly used between friends etc, whereas the latter is more polite. Hope this answers your question!

  • @waterclock001 the (tsu) just give the next letter a slight pause, for example. ikkimasu, ~don't have the japanese typing thing but here goes in romaji...~ so basicly it's spelled. i *tsu* ki - ma - su. Not sure if you understand but hey, :P i atleast responded. :D

  • @MrGoldnSilver

    Ringo o tabemashita is more polite than ringo o tabeta

  • I have got a question.

    I have seen a video where a women said " when you have a sentence, and you will do the sentence in past tense then you must do a 'shita' behind the word. "

    When i will say " I ate an apple " I would say = Ringo wo tabemashita

    But why is in your video " tabeta " ? can i also say " Ringo wo tabeta " ?

  • @jaymirio さん

    No its not. If it is a small つ it means 'sudden stop' after the hiragana it follows, hence the pronunciation of the native speaker in this video. So small つ is mostly there for pronunciation wise.

  • @techomatic2000 So it's a Chiisai tsu?

  • つ makes two t's in まつた so it is matta not maata

  • @Misfit0v3rLoad it's more formal to use mashita form. ta is more casual. remember japanese have different levels of politeness.

  • @waterclock001

    the つ in かつた makes the か longer instead of ka, it bekomes like kaa.

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