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8 Basic Patterns【TENSE FORM】of Past and Present/Future

2023/09/06

Director: Kotaro Muramoto
Principal of Nihongo Online School
In September 2019, he founded "Nihongo Online School". Since then, has been teaching Japanese online lessons, with a total of over 1,000 students.
He has designed an individualized curriculum based on student’s needs and study goal. And is conscious of making the classes speech-centered in order to improve students’ speaking skills.
The school asks students to submit homework assignments worth 2 hours per lesson to improve faster. By supporting students with these features, students are able to efficiently improve Japanese language skills.

Do you make sentence with below schedule? this is lesson to understand and how to make sentence with using tense.

【Past】

・past affirmative: Noun+deshita.

sample: it was rain yesterday. きのう は、あめ(N) でした

・past negative: N+dehaarimasenndesita.

sample: it was not rain yesterday. きのう は、あめ(N) ではありませんでした

・past affirmative: Verb+mashita.

sample: I played baseball yesterday. きのう、やきゅう を し(V)ました

・past nagative: Verb+masenndesita .

sample: I didn’t play baseball yesterday. きのう、やきゅう を し(V)ませんでした

【Present/Future】

・affirmative: Noun+desu.

sample: it is sunny today. きょう は、はれ(N) です

・Negative: Noun+dehaarimasen.

sample: it is not sunny today. きょう は、はれ(N) ではありません

・affirmative: Verb+masu.

sample: I will play basketbal tomorrow. あした、バスケットボール を し(V)ます

・Negative: Noun+masen.

sample: I won’t play basketball tomorrow. あした、バスケットボール を し(V)ません

Lesson

Let’s create sentence with below picture and tell us

what did you do yesterday? and what will you do tomorrow?