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Yamatoblue

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こんにちは、皆さん！
質問！ :?
★「思ってた」
★「してた」
★「やってた」
★「買ってた」
★「忘れてた」
★「見てた」

この言葉の意味は何でしょうか？「てた」とういうは何でしょうか？
具体的に教えてください。英語で書いたほうがいい。

ヤマトブルーより。
 

★「思っていた」
★「していた」
★「やっていた」
★「買っていた」
★「忘れていた」
★「見ていた」

と同じです。
 

So we're supposed to believe that your Japanese is good enough to write that last bit at the end yourself, but you couldn't puzzle out on your own what those are? Come now, give us a break.
 
Konnichiwa Yamatoblue-san!


It mens the past perfect tense.

Had he finished it when you saw him?
あいつ、もうやってた？
No, he hadn't.
いいえ, まだでした.

NANGI
 
mikecash said:
So we're supposed to believe that your Japanese is good enough to write that last bit at the end yourself, but you couldn't puzzle out on your own what those are?
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Maybe he just wanted to know what difference in nuance there is between using 知っていた and 知ってた.
 
^
Yeah.
And my japanese is awful.
The reason I asked this was because someone told me that this form meant "wanted to do something"
I thought (Example): 働いてた (wanted to work)
But thank you guys for clearing it up.
A big zakkenayo to you, mikecash.
 
Yamatoblue said:
The reason I asked this was because someone told me that this form meant "wanted to do something"
I thought (Example): 働いてた (wanted to work)
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It seems that you confused てた and たい.
たい means "wanted to do something"
 
Yeah,
働いて(い)た means "was working."
働いて(い)たい means "want to be working."
働いて(い)たかった means "wanted to be working."

Keiichi

 
How stupid of me! I made a mistake.
wanted to do something means 'takatta' (past tense form of 'tai').
Thank you for the correction, Keiich.
 
Keiichi (or anyone else),

I'm probably way off here. But does the gerund+たい (implying "want/wants to" verb) have the same meaning as gerund+たいん? I thought I heard or read that somewhere. :?

Dan
 
Yes, it does, but the -ん part is a different thing. We actually have quite a bit of topics here about what the -ん （-の） in the end of sentences are. I'm too lazy to dig any up now. ^^'

Keiichi

 
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