Practice describing past events in Japanese
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| Do you know how to describe past events in Japanese? |
| Welcome to Three Step Japanese Practice by JapanesePod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to describe past events. |
| Let’s look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation about something that happened in the past. |
| 9さいでしたよ｡ さくらが ほんとうに きれいでしたね｡ (Kyuu sai deshita yo. Sakura ga hontou ni kirei deshita ne.) |
| "You were nine years old. The cherry blossoms were really beautiful, weren’t they?" |
| はい｡ すばらしかったです｡ (Hai. Subarashikatta desu.) |
| "Yes, it was wonderful." |
| In this conversation, both characters use a past tense i-adjective to describe something that happened. I-adjectives become past-tense by replacing the final い (i) in the adjective with かった (katta). |
| To put a na-adjective into the past-tense, you turn the です (desu) after the adjective to でした (deshita), without modifying the adjective itself. It's similar to setting other sentences into the past tense. |
| Let’s practice with this grammar more in this lesson. |
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