Monday, May 21, 2012

Japanese 101 - Plain-Past (mini lesson)

Hehe, how shameless of me.
Anyway, this derives off the て form

Plain past is easy, after you get the て form.

To conjugate a verb into the plain-past, but it into the て form, but use た instead of  て to end the verb.

In the interest of time, I till use the Group 2 verb めざめる (目覚める), or to wake up.

Dictionary form めざめる (to wake up)
て form めざめて ("wake up" command)
Gerund - めざめている (waking)
Plain-Past - めざめた (woke)

Obviously, it's used to describe things that have already happened.

I also use it in compare and contrasts with  こと/もの
But that's for another time

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