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時制. Questions relating to that property of verbs which allows them to refer to events in the past, present, or future.

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ありがとうございます vs. ありがとうございました

A quick search on Google of "ありがとうございます" "ありがとうございました" shows many discussions about the usage of these two expressions, mostly in Japanese (presumably by many Japanese people), and there does not seem …
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"How did you know?" and "how do you know?" in Japanese

I think that どうしてわかったのですか and どうしてわかるのですか correspond to “How did you know” and “How do you know” in the way you described. どうして知っていましたか and どうして知っていますか do not sound right, but I am not sure why. Unl …
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what is the past tense of お腹が空いた?

As phirru already answered, “I was hungry” is おなかがすいていた. However, this is not the past form of おなかがすいた. Although phirru explained it in his/her answer, let me be more explicit in this regard. おなかがす …
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Confused in choosing でした or です in のは~だ grammar

As Toshihiko wrote, both A and B are correct sentences in Japanese. However, they are not always interchangeable. For example, suppose that you ate nikuman yesterday, but today your coworker asked y …
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