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~ませんか Posted by Ginny on Nov 18, 2009

For today’s post we’ll take a look at the ませんか construction. Let’s take a look at this sample sentence, “にほんご　を　べんきょうしませんか“. (にほんご = Japanese language. を = wo. べんきょうしませんか = won’t you study.) In English this sentence would mean “Won’t you study Japanese [with me]?”. To form the “Won’t you” construction, take the present polite negative…