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Casual Negative Tense for Japanese

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In this short slideshare I go over how to form the casual negative tense of verbs in Japanese and the irregular いい adjective.

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Page 1: Casual Negative Tense for Japanese

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I forgot to mention one thing in the previous video. Sorry about that.

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I didn't tell you about casual negative tense. But, it's really easy.

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For i-adjectives, you just cut the い off and add くない , like so:

あまい → あま + くない → あまくない

amai → ama + kunai → amakunai

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There is one odd ball to be aware of though – いい , which means good in

Japanese...

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...has an irregular negative form. It changes from いい to よい .

いい – good よくない – not good ii yokunai