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kaerimasu
kimasu
yoku
kyoo
ashita
kaimasu
mainichi
pan
bifuteki
denki
to return
to come
often
today
tomorrow
to buy
everyday
bread
beefsteak
lamp
Ikimasu.
To say 'they go' use:
Nomimasu ka.
To say 'I drink?' use:
Tabemasen ka.
To say 'don't we eat?' use:
Gakkoo e ikimasu.
I go to school.
Nihon e kaerimasu ka.
We return to Japan?
Gakkoo e ikimasen ka.
Don't they go to school?
Nihon e ikimasu ka.
We go to Japan?
Nihon e ikimasen ka.
I will not go to Japan?
Gakkoo e kimasu.
They will come to school.
Kaerimasen ka.
Won't they return?
Beefteki o tabemasu.
I eat steak.
Biiru o nomimasu.
I drink beer.
Kohii o nomimasen ka.
Don't they drink coffee?
Tokyoo e ikimasu.
You go to Tokyo.
*** KAERIMASU=TO RETURN****KIMASU=TO COME*****IKIMASU=TO GO ****
To make a sentence into a question we add 'ka' onto the end of the
verb. For example tabemasu becomes tabemasu ka (pronounced tah-be-mas-ka).
Tabemasen becomes tabemasen ka (don't they eat?). `Ikimasu' means`(they) go.'
`Ikimasu ka' means `(they) go?'.`Ikimasen' means`(they) don't go'.
`Ikimasen ka' means `Don't (they) go?'.
Verbs like ikimasu, kimasu, and kaerimasu normally occur with the
`relational e' in between the place and themselves. The usual form is
PLACE + e + VERB. `e' roughly can be thought to mean `to'.
An example is `Nihon e ikimasu' - `(I) will go to Japan.'
`Ikimasu'(ee-key-mahs) means to go somewhere. `Kimasu' means to come
from somewhere else to here.`Kaerimasu' means to go somewhere else from
here and then return to here. In Japanese the present tense and the future
tense are pronunced the same. Context is the only difference.
Ikimasu means (I) go, and also (I) will go.
Verbs other than `movement verbs'(ie ikimasu) get the `relational o'
between themselves and the object. Some examples:
OBJECT o verb
biiru o nomimasu
Remember that the masu form means either habitual or future action.