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昨日 は 雨 だった ので、 家 の 前 の コンビニ に しか 行きません でした。kinou wa ame datta node, ie no mae no konbini ni shika ikimasen deshita.
Meaning
Because it rained yesterday, I only went to the convenience store in front of my house.
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Breakdown of kinou wa ame datta node, ie no mae no konbini ni shika ikimasen deshita.
はwa
topic particle
にni
destination particle
行くiku
to go
のno
possessive case particle
Questions & Answers about kinou wa ame datta node, ie no mae no konbini ni shika ikimasen deshita.
Why is 雨 followed by だった? I thought verbs show past tense, not nouns.
In Japanese, weather is often expressed with a noun + だ/です rather than a verb.
- 雨だった literally: “(it) was rain.”
- Natural English: “It rained / It was rainy.”
Grammar:
- 雨 – “rain” (a noun)
- だ – copula (“is/am/are”) in plain form
- だった – past tense of だ (“was/were”)
So 雨だった = “there was rain / it was rainy.”
You could also say:
- 昨日は雨が降ったので… – “Because it rained yesterday, …”
雨だった sounds more like describing the day’s overall weather (“it was a rainy day”) rather than focusing on the action of rain falling at a particular moment.
What is the role of は after 昨日? Could we use に instead?
