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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...
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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 instance everyone's favorite word, 食べる (eat). This can be conjugated as:Negative, Plain: 食べないNegative, Polite: 食べないですNegative, Polite: 食べません- My questions about this are,
1. Is ～ないです used? While I believe it is grammatically valid, I'm not sure if it is something that Japanese people would actually say.- 2. If it is used, is there a difference in the usage of the two forms?
- 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 <span lang='ja'>～ない</span> with <span lang='ja'>です</span> added.
- Take for instance everyone's favorite word, <span lang='ja'>食べる</span> (eat). This can be conjugated as:
- Negative, Plain: <span lang='ja'>食べない</span>
- Negative, Polite: <span lang='ja'>食べないです</span>
- Negative, Polite: <span lang='ja'>食べません</span>
- My questions about this are,
- 1. Is <span lang='ja'>～ないです</span> used? While I believe it is grammatically valid, I'm not sure if it is something that Japanese people would actually say.
- 2. If it is used, is there a difference in the usage of the two forms?
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Moshi
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2020-10-20T04:53:46Z (about 4 years ago)
～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 instance everyone's favorite word, 食べる (eat). This can be conjugated as: Negative, Plain: 食べない Negative, Polite: 食べないです Negative, Polite: 食べません My questions about this are, 1. Is ～ないです used? While I believe it is grammatically valid, I'm not sure if it is something that Japanese people would actually say. 2. If it is used, is there a difference in the usage of the two forms?