Japanese

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	To say that you have to or must do something, you can use a <strong>verb in plain negative form + ~と　いけない</strong>.
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	You can also use <strong>いけません</strong> in place of <strong>いけない</strong> to make the sentence more formal.
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	It's also possible to replace <strong>といけない</strong> with <strong>とダメです</strong>.
	<strong>ダメ</strong> essentially means <strong>no good</strong>, but it can also mean <strong>cannot/not allowed</strong>.
	Note that <strong>ダメ</strong> is spelled using katakana here, but in other cases it's often spelled using hiragana.
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	In very informal situations you can simply use the <strong>verb in plain negative form + ~と</strong>, omitting the final <strong>いけない</strong>.
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	There are also different ways to say <strong>must do</strong>, but we will look at those in a later lesson.
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Have to do - ないといけない

hiragana character

kanji

adnominal

adverb

auxiliary

conjunction

compound

i-adjective

interjection

noun

na-adjective

numeral

particle

case particle

conjunctive particle

discourse particle

prefix

pronoun

suffix

verb

sentence

hiragana writing

kanji writing

kanji component

reading vocabulary

katakana writing

katakana character

godan - group 1

itidan - group 2

group 3

transitive

intransitive

proper noun

discourse

phrase

expression

Word	お客きゃくさん　が　来くる　前まえ　に、　掃そう除じしない　と　いけません。 okyakusan ga kuru mae ni, souzisinai to ikemasen.
Meaning	We have to clean before the guests come.
Part of speech	sentence
Pronunciation

subject particle	が ga
at; on; in; to; for [indirect object particle]	に ni
and; or; with; if	と to
to come	来くる kuru
to go	行いく iku
front; before	前まえ mae
to clean; to sweep	掃そう除じする souzisuru
guest; customer	お客きゃくさん okyakusan

Japanese

okyakusan ga kuru mae ni, souzisinai to ikemasen.

Breakdown of okyakusan ga kuru mae ni, souzisinai to ikemasen.

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