002: Communicate with です
です is how you convey "this is what I perceive now". This means you take into account the presence of the listener.
Introduction
On top of already introduced nouns and noun-like adjectives (nlAdj), let's introduce
Adding です to a noun or an adjective (nlAdj or vlAdj) make it a socially presentable affirmative statement to the listener.
Grammatical structure and examples
Nouns: Add です after → [noun] ＋ です
NlAdj: Remove the な ending and add です after → [nlAdj] － [なending] ＋ です
VlAdj: Add です after → [vlAdj] ＋ です
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? Wait Nicolas but then what about 近いだ or 辛いだ? These are wrong, but more on it in later lessons.
"Communicative" nature of です
Contrary to だ, the above examples show you how is です is always intended to convey a message to the listener. This is why, especially in such short sentences that relies on conversation's context, です sentence may be an answer to a question.
Video Flashcard Examples
Click on the links below and see if you can hear the words and how they are intended to convey information as an answer or not to a previous question.
I hope this article has given you the first hint that です is not simply the polite version of だ.
How about I dive in more details with practical examples in the next article???
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1 个月One of the things that makes using です and だ tricky is that, as a pair, they can function in a similar manner to the polite and casual forms of verbs. In this respect, their usage is straightforward and easy for beginning students of Japanese to grasp and understand. But in other instances, です only serves to make what is being said (or written) more polite. This usage requires an understanding of various parts of speech and how such parts of speech interact with one another, a process that requires time to learn. Although I'm not a fan of using the comments section to promote my own posts, this is a topic that I tried to explain a while back. https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/richard-berger_righting-japanese-%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%A0-activity-7033960451235356672-lrrq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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1 个月- Making-of (part2) - ?? ?????????????? ???????? ???? ?? ???????? だ ????. です ?????????????????? I nearly added a whole section on the difference between だ and です, but I decided to save it for a future article—partly to let readers reflect on it themselves first. Would you have preferred to see a deeper dive in this article, or is it better left for later? ?? ???????????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???? です'?? "??" ?????????? At first, I included a note about the devoicing of す in です, but in the spirit of keeping things concise, I chose to let readers notice it naturally through the flashcards. Did you pick up on it? Or do you think it should have been explicitly mentioned?
Re-defining personalization in language learning
1 个月- Making-of (part1) - ?? ?????? ?????????????????? ???? ????????-???????? ???????????????? ?????????????? よ ???? ね I’m already feeling how tricky it is to create natural, non-textbook examples while avoiding よ or ね. This only reinforces my belief that they should be introduced much earlier. Why do traditional textbooks wait so long to teach them? ?? ?? ???????????? ?? ???????? ???????????? ???????? ?????????? だ ?????? ????????-???????? ????????????????????? I debated whether to briefly touch on why だ isn't used with verb-like adjectives (vlAdj)—maybe by hinting at inflection patterns, historical forms, or examples like おはようございます and ありがとうございます. I also considered mentioning that だ and です originated from である and であります, but in the end, I prioritized keeping the article short. That said, I still wonder: Would a small teaser have encouraged more independent research? What do you think?