Comments on: Past Tense – katta

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 02:46:22 +0000

Jouzu Deshita is polite past tense .
Jouzu Datta is casual past tense.

If you are using Katta which is the casual form for your examples.
Shouldn’t you be using Datta instead of deshita in your examples as well.
You are mixing the casual of polite form together which will confuse the reader.

By: luke

luke — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:53:39 +0000

The reason for the past tense of good being ‘yokatta’ is because it comes from the word ‘yoi’ meaning good not ‘ii’. ‘Ii’ also means good and is more common than ‘yoi’ though. Anyway, thanks for these lessons.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:18:57 +0000

hey AJ, when Tony says 4th character he could mean a, i, u, e, o. e is the 4th. so ne would be the 4th.

So anything without an い(i) uses deshita. And everything where the second to last character is: え、け、げ、せ、ぜ、て、で、ね、へ、べ、ぺ、め、or れ。

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:04:28 +0000

Hi AJ, yes, this is a little difficult but one thing for sure is, if “i” is not at the end of each word, “deshita” will be used. As long as there is the fourth character before an “i”, deshita will be used as well. Like “Te I Ne I” = before “I”, there is “Ne” (4th character) before “I”.

Remember that the “i” is refering to Hiragana not romaji. Benri doesn’t end with “i” but “ri”, so deshita is used in this case.

This need a little practice and once you used to all this, you will confuse no more.

“Muzukashii” is the correct one. If you see “Muzugashii” somewhere, it is wrong.

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:54:25 +0000

Just a quick one– is is really “muzugashii”? I’ve also seen “muzuKAshii”. Clerify?? Thanks!

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:25:27 +0000

“For example : teinei (in hiragana, it identifies as te i ne i) – If the fourth character is just before the “i”, then use “deshita”. In this case, the “ne” is the fourth character just before the “i”. Just like “kirei (ki re i)” – “re” is the fourth character.”

*gives a blank stare* I totally didn’t understand this. Could you clerify a little for me? I really wanna get this stuff…