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Present and Past Polite Form Print E-mail

To form the present polite form add -masu to the infinitive for the positive and -masen for the negative. For the past polite form add -mashita to the infinitive for the positive and -masen deshita for the negative.

ときどき映画を見ます。
Tokidoki eiga o mimasu.
I sometimes watch movies.

たかはしさんは魚を食べません。
Takahashi san wa sakana o tabemasen.
Ms. Takahashi doesn't eat fish.

毎日漢字の勉強をしましたが、すぐ忘れました。
Mainichi kanji no benkyou o shimashita ga, sugu wasuremashita.
I studied kanji every day, but I soon forgot them.

一時間待ましたが、友達は来ませんでした。
Ichi-jikan machimashita ga, tomodachi wa kimasen deshita.
I waited an hour, but my friend didn't come.

 

 


This page is a part of "Some Notes on Japanese Grammar" published for your personal use, with the kind permission of Keith Smillie (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~smillie/)

 

 

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