Thank you, Epigene San,
I see, KATAKANA is something like capital letters playing the roll of emphasis.
Also I've just learned how to abreviate "as far as I know"
"Chat English" is another way of English, isn't it?
You're right. The only reason for using katakana for っす is emphasis.
BTW, this is not only informal but also a guy thing, used especially by jocks, sumo wrestlers and small-fry yakuza... (AFAIK!)
The speaker is asking about the sound. The interrogative 窶ｰﾂｽ is omitted. ﾂ債｡窶堙娯?ｰﾂｹ窶堙梗COLOR="Red"]窶ｰﾂｽ[窶堙遺?堙云[/COLOR]ﾂ？
General Idea: That sound just now?
窶堙娯?堙 is a sentence final particle used by female. (male form; 窶堙ｱ窶堋ｾ窶堙?窶堙ｱ窶堋ｾ窶堙?
General Idea: Markus is also going to Treno.
Japanese: Maakasu mo toreno ni ikunone. (Tense, I think?)
For big brother's rescue/To rescue big brother.
General Idea: Brother rescue.
nanigoto de aru ka?
General Idea: W...what (thing) is it?
Japanese: Na...nanimono de aru ka?
Yes.2) So let's say I was saying this, would I be okay in saying, Maakasu mo toreno ni ikundane?
I think your Japanese reading comprehension is NO DOUBT improving.did I get the japanese right?
Japanese: ima no oto wa?
ﾂ静板信ﾂ坂?? ja arimasen.
Now, if I wanted to say, this is a picture of a red light:
Kore wa ﾅｽﾃ環真 (of, not sure of word or particle) ﾂ静板信ﾂ坂?? ja arimasen.
You can use a person's name as an object of verbs/adjectives without any problems, but I think you need to pay attention to the tense.I was just wondering...how do you say, you saw a person?
Putrefactory o mimasu doesn't sound right plus you're treating (me)the person as an object.
This sentence sound right?
Te-form + いる would be more natural to express "habit" in this case.Sanjihan goro taitei toshokan de hon o yomimasu.
[At about 3:30 I usually read (books) in the library.] The only small problem I'm having is placing taitei, somehow I think it goes before the sanjihan.
Tense, again.How about:
Doshite ga shinbun o yomimasu ka [Why did you read the newspaper?]
Doshite ga kono hon o kakimasu ka [Why did you write this book?]
二日間[ふつかかん] or 二日[ふつか]ichijikan means one hour interval. If I wanted to say, two day interval, would it be nijitsukan? How about three month? sangetsukan?
が is the subject marker, and どうして is not the subject in that sentense("you" is the one.) Thus, you don't need to add が.3) Ah I forgot to put it in past tense! But I'm glad the sentence made sense grammatically. Also, no ga? I thought you had to put ga during an interrogative. (Dore ga x en tokee desu ka?)
ふつか[futsuka]4) Isn't fukka meant to mean the second of the month? I was talking about let's say ordering something, and the delivery would come in a 2 day interval. (Tuesday through Thursday or something). Other than that I get it, though your last one seems really odd to me. I know it's mikka for 3rd of the month.
Might seem stupid, no ni next to the day? Instead, a wa? I guess because it's the topic marker?
は -- ...2) is the contrastive marker, and marks something that is being contrasted with something else.
Like as Glenn san's examples above, that は is used to contrast 日曜日 with other days of week, something like 月曜日は忙しくありません(I'm not busy on Monday.)You don't need to use は with temporal nouns (今日, 昨日, 去年, 来週, などなど). When you use it it means that you're contrasting something, so 今日は京都に行きます would be like "(Tomorrow I'm going to Nara/I'm not going to Kyoto tomorrow, but) today I'm going to Kyoto." 今日京都に行きます just means you're going to Kyoto today. 明日京都に行きません means "I'm not going to Kyoto tomorrow."
You got it!I have a question about na adjectives.
So if I wanted to say something is beautiful, would I say ---wa kireina--- desu because it's a noun?
Movie was interesting.: 窶ｰf窶ｰﾃｦ窶堙坂?堋ｨ窶堙?窶堋ｵ窶堙ｫ窶堋ｩ窶堙≫?堋ｽ窶堙??堋ｷﾂ。Can you give me a sentence where you use omoshirokatta? I can't find one in Genki. Does omoshirokatta eiga desu work. (Movie was interesting).
ﾂ静ｦﾂ週窶堙梗COLOR="Red"]窶纏[窶堋｢窶堋ｻ窶堋ｪ]窶堋ｵ窶堋ｩ窶堙≫?堋ｽ[/COLOR]窶堙??堋ｷ窶堋ｩﾂ？
So... ﾂ静ｦﾂ週 wa isogashii desu ka?
No. 窶纏窶堋ｵ窶堋｢ is an i-adjective.Is there any way that senshuu wa isogashii deshita would work?
Yes. ﾅ陳ｳ窶ｹC is a na-adjective.Or how about if I wanted to say "I wasn't healthy last week": senshuu wa genki ja arimasen deshita"?
Right. 沖縄[おきなわ]で(は)写真[しゃしん]はきれい[kirei, not kireei]でした means "the picture was beautiful in Okinawa." That sentense strongly suggests that the picture is not beautiful now, or the picture is/was not beautiful in other places than Okinawa.how would you say "The picture was beautiful in Okinawa"? Okinawa de shashin wa kireeideshita?
窶堋ｾ窶堙≫?堋ｽ is the non-polite form of 窶堙??堋ｵ窶堋ｽ. Polite form of adjectives can't be used when modifying nouns.Though I didn't read on this datta.
Perfect!Let me just do at least one more i-adj..."That Japanese test was hard."
Sono Nihongo no tesuto wa muzukashikatta desu. And one -na adjective..quiet..."That music was not quiet" (I know, doesn't really sound good but..) Sono ongaku wa shizuka ja arimasen deshita.
ﾂ催ｰ窶愿ｺﾂ食窶堙冷?堋ｽ窶愿ｷ窶堙坂?堋ｨ窶堋｢窶堋ｵ窶堋ｩ窶堙≫?堋ｽ窶堙??堋ｷﾂ。Yesterday, the meat I ate was good
知る・知ります
Shizukana ongaku....Oh, I see..so for my -na example, it would be shizuka ongaku dewa arimasen deshita? I didn't use dewa yet either. I forgot about oishii. Since I can't think of a situation where you can use -shita with an adjective can you give me one? (Your sentence said, Kyou tabeta niku wa oishikatta desu)