{"id":138,"date":"2009-10-19T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-10-19T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:30:27","slug":"forming-the-past-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/forming-the-past-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Forming the Past Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0affirmative past tense in Japanese is formed by adding <strong>\u307e\u3057\u305f<\/strong> to the root stem of the verb. The best way to form the past tense is by remembering the formation of the present tense of the verb, leave off the ending, and add <strong>\u307e\u3057\u305f<\/strong>. For example, the present tense affirmative of <strong>\u304b\u3048\u308b<\/strong> (to return) is <strong>\u304b\u3048\u308a\u307e\u3059<\/strong>. Take off the<strong> \u307e\u3059<\/strong> and add <strong>\u307e\u3057\u305f<\/strong> to the stem. You get <strong>\u304b\u3048\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f <\/strong>as the final product. Here are some more examples:<\/p>\n<p>Infinitive:\u00a0(<strong>\u306f\u3044\u308b<\/strong>)(<strong>\u5165\u308b<\/strong>) to enter<\/p>\n<p>Present, polite, affirmative: (<strong>\u306f\u3044\u308a\u307e\u3059<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Past, polite, affirmative: (<strong>\u306f\u3044\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Infinitive: (<strong>\u3059\u308b<\/strong>) to do<\/p>\n<p>Present, polite, affirmative: (<strong>\u3057\u307e\u3059<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Past, polite, affirmative: (<strong>\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Infinitive: (<strong>\u3064\u304f\u308b<\/strong>)(<strong>\u4f5c\u308b<\/strong>) to make, build, create<\/p>\n<p>Present, polite, affirmative: (<strong>\u3064\u304f\u308a\u307e\u3059<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Past, polite, affirmative: (<strong>\u3064\u304f\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Infinitive: (<strong>\u3044\u305d\u3050<\/strong>) (<strong>\u6025\u3050<\/strong>) to hurry<\/p>\n<p>Present, polite, affirmative: (<strong>\u3044\u305d\u304e\u307e\u3059<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Past, polite, affirmative: (<strong>\u3044\u305d\u304e\u307e\u3057\u305f<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0affirmative past tense in Japanese is formed by adding \u307e\u3057\u305f to the root stem of the verb. 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