Learn JapaneseLesson 35: Negating past verbs
In this lesson you will learn how to negate verbs in the past tense in Japanese. Again, this is very easy to do, we just replace ます by ません でした. でした is the past form of です.
| English | Japanese |
|---|---|
| Didn't you buy a book? |
本を買いませんでしたか？ hon wo kaimasen desita ka? |
| I didn't buy a book. |
本を買いませんでした。 hon wo kaimasen desita. |
| I didn't drink anything today. |
今日何も飲みませんでした。 kyou nanimo nomimasen desita. |
Just as with 何か, we don't use the object particle を after 何も.
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