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Resources Japanese Learning Resources

posted 4y ago by Razetime‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A ~ません versus ~ないです

As far as my knowledge of Japanese goes, there are two ways to form polite negative forms of verbs, the direct conjugation ~ません and the plain negative conjugation ~ない with です added. Take for insta...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Has Japanese always had the polite "masu" form?

Japanese has what is known as the "polite form"/"masu form" and the "plain form". Notably, the two forms have completely different conjugations despite having the same meaning, differing only in po...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Jirka Hanika‭