Timeline for How is 「なう」most commonly appended to verbs?
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| Dec 23, 2011 at 5:14 | comment | added | Amadan | Again, we are not in disagreement about the form itself. However, the most natural way to explain the meaning of verb tenses when used with 〜なう is to compare with 〜ところ. As for "non-past", I use it to contrast with "past", because I hate the term "present" in Japanese with a passion (Japanese does not have a present tense), along with many linguists. It's "(non-past) form", not "non-(past form)". So when I say non-past form, it's to signify たべる、たべます as opposed to たべた which is past. Sorry I didn't use the proper Japanese grammatical term for it, but I don't know it. | |
| Dec 23, 2011 at 5:06 | history | edited | user458 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 23, 2011 at 5:04 | comment | added | user458 |
@Amadan When the predicate is a noun or a na-adjective, you need the copula だ or である or some other form of it. But だ is omitted. So, when you see なう directly attached to a noun, you can say that it is non-past form.
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| Dec 23, 2011 at 5:00 | comment | added | Amadan | Nouns don't have tenses, and thus aren't as confusing. OP: "I want to know what the most common way to add なう after a verb is." - I don't think we have contradictory answers, just complementary: you explain the form 〜なう attaches to, while I explain what each of the verbal tenses means when it attaches to a verb, as per direct inquiry from the OP (also, the question's title), since by the lower part of the question it is clearly the differing tenses that are confusing the OP. | |
| Dec 23, 2011 at 4:55 | comment | added | user458 | @Amadan But the question has examples with nouns, so it is expected to explain those as well. | |
| Dec 23, 2011 at 4:54 | history | edited | user458 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 23, 2011 at 4:53 | comment | added | Amadan | I did say "with verbs" though. I was trying to explain not really the form, but the fact that the tenses are not random. As for purely the form that is being attached to, I will agree with you. | |
| Dec 22, 2011 at 19:14 | history | edited | user458 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2011 at 19:08 | history | answered | user458 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |