Mieko : Yeah, I was in Japan last year, it was so hot – Ee, watashi wa kyonen no natsu mo nihon ni imashita ga, totemo atsukatta desu yo. Tony : Is Japan’s summer sultry? – Nihon no natsu wa mushi atsui desu ne? Meaning : Kinou (Yesterday), Tenki (Weather), Demo (But), Kyou (Today), Atatakai (Warm) Demo, kyou no hou ga kinou yori atatakai desu ne But, today is warmer than yesterday – Ee. Tony : It was a good weather yesterday – Kinou wa ii tenki deshita ne I will cover the conversation part of what we have learned in previous lesson. Later, I will cover the lesson on how to combine 2 adjectives using ~te form. With a little more practise, you will be able to master it. It is a little confuse for the conversion. I will cover each usage above later after this lesson on how to convert normal form to ~te form Normal Form Tabe te hoshii (Want to eat) – Wanted to do something Tabe te ikimasu (Go and eat) – Saying something that is going to happen Tabe te shimaimashita (I have completely eaten) – To imply something which is completed Tabe te mimasu (Eat and see) – Trying something and see how is the result Kai te okimasu (I have wrote it) – Do something in advance / in preparation Tabe te arimasu (I have been eaten) – Something has been done Tabe te imasu (Eating) – Similar to the “~ing” in English Tabe te kudasai (Please Eat) – Requesting ~te can be used for combination of 2 adjectives. “Te” is use in connection with the following words : Today I will show you how to convert into “~te” form. So far we have learned how to convert to “~masu” & “~katta” form. Special adjectives where you have add a “de” at the end Today I will show you how to convert adjective into ~te form as shown in the examples above. Yesterday, I covered the conversion from Verbs to ~te form (ie. Example : Kono kuruma wa takakute kaenai desu (I couldn’t buy this car because it is too expensive). Meaning : Hosoi (Thin – Use for human, long item), Tsuyoi (Strong), Usui (Use for books, papers), Zasshi (Magazine), Omoshiroi (Interesting), Otera (Temple) The magazine is thin but interesting – Usu kute omoshiroi zasshi desu The string is thin but strong – Hoso kute tsuyoi ito desu. It is to combine 2 adjectives in 1 sentence. As promise yesterday, today I will cover the first part of using “~te” form.
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