What’s the difference between Taberu and Tabemasu? “To eat” is TABEMASU. Its dictionary form is TABERU. “Hands” is TE. “To wash” is ARAIMASU, and its past form is ARAIMASHITA.
What is Watashi in hiragana? Our word here “watashi” is written in Hiragana: わたし. We also got Katakana; you’ll learn this pretty soon. It’s used for names of animals and words loaned from other languages, usually English, Dutch, etc., but you can technically write any word in this script. “Watashi” using Katakana looks like ワタシ.
What is Wakaranai? Usually, “shira-nai” is translated “I don’t know” and “wakara-nai” is translated “I don’t understand”. Both words are used when the speaker can’t answer the listener clearly.
What is Yomimasu? So, YOMIMASU (to read) becomes YOMIMASEN. To make it into a question, we add the particle KA at the end of a sentence, and say it with a rising intonation. The question form of YOMIMASU (to read) is YOMIMASU KA. Go to this lesson’s page. Go back to the list.
What’s the difference between Taberu and Tabemasu? – Related Questions
How do you write Tabemashita in kanji?
Here the main part of the word “eat” (pronounced “ta” in this case) is the kanji 食. The other two syllables: “be-ru” are in hiragana (べる). To say “I ate” or “you ate” etc. you would say “tabemashita”, written食べました (“be-ma-shi-ta” is written in hiragana).
What does Kaimasu mean?
Verb endings remain the same regardless of who does the action: kaimasu can mean ‘I buy’, ‘he buys’ or ‘we buy’. You can get by with only two main tenses – the past and the present/future: kaimasu covers ‘buy’ and ‘will buy’, kaimashita means ‘bought’.
What is Arimasu?
arimasu and imasu are 2 Japanese verbs used to express existence of thing and people/animal respectively. あります (arimasu) is used when what is present does not move by itself, like thing or plant. On the other hand います (imasu) is used when what is present moves by himself/itself, like people or animal.
