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Minna no Nihongo Lesson 50 Grammar

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 50 Grammar 謙譲語 (humble expressions) けんじょうごare expressions in which the speaker humbles himself/herself and lowers his/her own acts to show respect to the listener or the person being referred to. Respect is directed at a person of higher social status or そとのひと (an outsider). けんじょうごis also used …

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Minna no Nihongo Lesson 49 Grammar

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 49 Grammar 敬語 (honorific expressions) You learnけいご in Lesson 49 and 50, けいごare expressions used to show the speaker’s respect for the listener or the person being referred to. The speaker is expected to show respect depending on his/her relationship with the listener or the person being …

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Minna no Nihongo Lesson 48 Grammar

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 48 Grammar Causative verbs How to make causative verbs Causative verbs polite form plain form I いきます いかせます いかせる II たべます たべさせます たべさせる III きます します こさせます させます こさせる させる   All causative verbs are Group II verbs; they conjugate into the dictionary form, ない-form, て-form, …

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Minna no Nihongo Lesson 47 Grammar

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 47 Grammar Plain form そうです I hear that … This is an expression for conveying information you have obtained from another source without adding your own point of view. When the source of information is given, it is indicated by~によると (according to), placed at the beginning of …

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Minna no Nihongo Lesson 46 Grammar

Minna no Nihongo Lesson 46 Grammar V dictionary form Vて-formいる Vた-form ところです   The wordところ originally means “place”, but it is also used to indicate a temporal position. The ところthat you learn in this lesson is the latter and is used to stress a certain point in time during the …

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