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 o kaimasen deshita ka? |
| I didn't buy a book. | 本 を 買いません でした。hon o kaimasen deshita. |
| I didn't drink anything today. | 今日 何も 飲みません でした。kyou nanimo nomimasen deshita. |
Just as with 何か, we don't use the object particle を after 何も.
