Questions relating to that property of verbs which allows them to refer to events in the past, present, or future.
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How do I express sentences like: He is dying?
For instance, "He is eating" is "Kare wa tabete iru". However, "He is dying" is not "Kare wa shinde iru". Another example is "He is going to Japan" is not "Kare wa nihon ni itte iru". So if I can't ...
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Difference between 行ったから and 行ってから and 行くから
What is the difference in usage between 行ったから and 行ってから and 行くから?
Is there a sense of sequence implied in one and not the other?
In the following examples where would i be buying the book and where ...
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Why does the narrator switch tenses here?
I'm currently reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Japanese, but the opening to the story is confusing me a bit.
The actual text reads:
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Would the plain form of a verb usually be translated as future tense?
In a recent question I asked, this example sentence was offered:
映画を見る。 (I will watch a movie.)
What struck me about this was that the translated version was the future tense.
However, I always ...
