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- 6 Jul 2011
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What is the difference?
Taberu - Eat
Tabemashite iru - Is Eating
Tabeta - Ate
Tabemashite ita - Was eating
Tabemaseru - Could/can/able to eat
My understanding of presumptive is it translates to more or less..
Trying/try to eat
Shall eat
About to eat
Lets eat
But which of these would fall into presumptive or past presumptive? They seem to all be present tense.. Or would the past presumptive literally mean "was about to eat", "was trying to eat" etc.. and in that case shall and lets would only be normal presumptive. Hope this isnt to confusing but books are ****!
Taberu - Eat
Tabemashite iru - Is Eating
Tabeta - Ate
Tabemashite ita - Was eating
Tabemaseru - Could/can/able to eat
My understanding of presumptive is it translates to more or less..
Trying/try to eat
Shall eat
About to eat
Lets eat
But which of these would fall into presumptive or past presumptive? They seem to all be present tense.. Or would the past presumptive literally mean "was about to eat", "was trying to eat" etc.. and in that case shall and lets would only be normal presumptive. Hope this isnt to confusing but books are ****!