JP 1000 Lecture 12: Japanese Nouns Part 3
Document Summary
For topics on japanese nouns, you have already learned how to form simple sentences using nouns and how to use one noun to modify another noun in lesson 2 and 3 respectively. In this lesson i will concentrate on 2 simple sentence patterns that specify the actions perform before and after noun. In japanese, it"s always useful to state that you are going to do certain actions before or after certain events. These events are normally specified as japanese nouns. One thing you have to take note is that the noun in the above sentence patterns refer to only. Let"s say that you are going to eat your breakfast or read the newspaper before school. Using the above scenarios, you can express them in the following: (cid:2112) (cid:2119) (cid:2146)(cid:2162) (cid:2121)(cid:2120)(cid:2147)(cid:2183)(cid:2182) (cid:2157)(cid:2162)(cid:2125) gakkou no mae ni asagohan wo tabemasu. Meaning: i eat my breakfast before school: (cid:2112) (cid:2119) (cid:2146)(cid:2162) (cid:2123)(cid:2183)(cid:2154)(cid:2183)(cid:2182)(cid:2172)(cid:2163)(cid:2162)(cid:2125) gakkou no mae ni shinbun wo yomimasu.
