Past Tense Japanese Adjectives | Japanese From Zero! Video 50 

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i actually love this guy, he makes Japanese so much fun and thats a hard thing to do

I am from Mississippi actually and they would always criticize me for learning and improving my Japanese. My father would always ask why didn’t you learn Spanish ? My brother in law and sister along with their friends would tell me Japanese is not going to help you in life. But I don’t allow that to get to me because the language of the land of the rising sun is just one of the most interestingly beautiful languages ever known to humankind.

"When you say it, don't you feel the power inside?" - Yes, this is what first brought me to learn Japanese. There's something really powerful and exceptionally beautiful about the language. Certainly not everyone thinks like that, but it's really fulfilling to find people out there who feel the same.

The fact that these videos still have the ability to help people like me almost 8 years after they have been released show's how much of a master George is. I wouldn't be surprised if these continued to help other's for even years and years down the line.

I always say that learning Japanese is fun. I think i can say that because you're the teacher.

This is incredibly relevant to me , I made a post on HelloTalk yesterday and had 2 people re-conjugate "きれい" for me, one corrected it to "きれいでした" and the other to "きれかった" lol. Thank you very much for the clarification, love your videos!

OH wow, i actually got the last sentence right, i'm proud of myself

This world needs more and more teachers like you, so engaging and 'omoshiroi'.

I appreciate all your hard work, George! I watch your videos every day and I think you're an excellent teacher. Also, it's surprising and super interesting learning about your life (you seem to make a lot of videos about yourself which I think is great) I can tell this channel/business is personal and very important to you. You've helped me tons. And I live here now so it's kinda necessary I study lol

"The fork IS... was not old!" Craziness! This is the kind of wonderful difference in languages that gets me excited.

"Thank who ever did it!" Never gets old. I laugh every time. : )

You know what's creepy George?Literally just yesterday, I was playing around with my iphone and I suddenly thought, 'Hey, wouldn't it be nice if I could try conversing with Japanese Siri?' And I changed it and played around with it literally just a day before I watched this video and had you recommend it! Crazy coincidence!!

I was so happy when I was able to translate the last sentence. Thank you so much!

This is great to summarise a lesson, usually clears up any questions about lessons. Thanks, George!

I love the way you teach!! I found this video while searching for some extra help with conjugating adjectives. Now I can't wait to watch the rest of your videos because you are so clear and concise. Thanks so much! :D

I love ❤️ these lessons. I love his enthusiasm and his supportive attitude. Such a great teacher!!

I’ve been watching your videos since the beginning (while studying along with the book). They’ve been amazing. This one though is amazing! Thank you!

The best thing I love about you as a teacher is that you encourage us in so many ways.... thank you for being our source of not stopping

Great review lesson for me. Thank you.

Learning to make adjecives past! i feel im making huge progress in my japanese! Thank you sou much sensei

the pep talk at about 8mins was just what i needed also holy thumbnails!

This is such an important lesson

Very nice video as always, keep it up!

Had to come back and watch this, had completely forgotten about it.

Thank you so much George. Been learning from you since 2000 :D You rock !

そのビデオはよかったです I'm proud of myself. I thought about it and said out loud exactly what you had for the last one about not liking the movie yesterday. I just happened to know all those things. I think I learned 映画 from a スーパマリオ movie poster.

I've watched this video like 10 times. This is a concept that I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my mind around.

You're the best teacher on YT George :)

Next time someone says that you're talking ornamental, take it as a compliment 😉 being eloquent in a language is an art form and thus very ornamental 😀

i Thank you for this, i struggled with this badly, thank you

Commenting on a 3y/o video, i was confused when you left out past tense negative in book 1, so I've been saying しゃないでした　all this time, glad I continued on

Sir you are a very good teacher so much fun, so funny yet to the point. How did you learn to teach like this ? Thank you! You are helping me so much you are using your gifts very well.

Really helpful thanks :)

Thank you master, now everything with じゃない and くない makes sense. :)

Arigatou, sensei!

昨日の映画は好きじゃなかったです。ーThat one really made me think! I appreciate these videos. どうもありがとうございます！

I have a question: when is Chinese from zero coming out? I've found all of your previous videos about Japanese and Korean to be very helpful. I'm interested in learning multiple languages and all three of these are on my list

there's a lyric in a song that goes, "kinou anna ni yasashikute mo," and is translated as "yesterday you were so kind to me." I'm wondering why it isn't yasashikata." If it's too complicated of question for this lesson, I understand, but very I'm curious. thanks for these! (Sorry for no hiragana keyboard.)

MAN, YOU make me laugh................I am having a good time and learning with this video................hahahahahaha.... thanks!!

I haven't been more confused in this series until the presentation of the "Na" adj. I knew they existed but didn't know exactly how they worked and God dam what's the trick to knowing if its "i" or "na"

ジョージさんのティーシャツがすきです。

Saying Benri is like saying Henry the name in English, if anyone needed help pronouncing it! Just say "Henuri" Henry with a Japanese accent and you will begin to understand the sound! ( Ben U Ri )

I don't remember you mentioning this, and it may be because it's too early for these lessons, but words like きれい are not い adjectives actually because the い sound is inside the kanji. You can't conjugate kanji. 綺麗 vs 優しい. The い must be in hiragana form.

This was a tough one! Lots of new info here! :'(

Men, fucking big thanks to you, kinda been bored with learning japanese, im almost doing it for half a year, and this video was informational and inspiring, and saying that im already somewhere in this language learning journey was what i needed, thank you once again, i ll watch more of your videos for sure, and to my fellow learners of japanese, you can do it, a day at a time, its a long journey but it can be a beautiful long journey, stay strong, bye bye

Grew up in Houston (84-2002). I said oriental until maybe 98. Texas man. Didn't know any better.

Thanks, George. I said that part out-loud and got kicked out of my favourite cafe. :P

I want compilation serious George. You know, like the "sitting on a rocking chair on the porch at night with a dim wall lamp, having a cold beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other and talking like he's been through both world wars" George.

Hey! In the book, "kind" is translated as やさしい but in the video you introduced the word しんせつ. Is there a difference in meaning? Thanks :)

けいようし is adjective, but it can also be more specifically i adjectives, while specifically na adjectives can be けいようどうし

"he's speaking oriental" XD that got me immediately

I couldn't help but laugh at the Osaka comment. the very subtle "It's people from Osaka..."

there is a reason why it is better to learn plain casual (not rude casual) before masu desu, if you are going to japan soon then sure go for the masu/desu asap. but you plan to fully learn the language before interacting, it's better the other way around, I learned this the hard way since I was so used to masu, it became a pain in the ass when conjugations came in for verbs, because I had the masu forms memorized first and was so used to using it all the time, I had to figure out the plain form then conjugate into the form that I wanted so it added an extra step in my head which is something you don't want to have when trying to actively translate something your trying to say. later on you will see you can't actually use masu verbs in the middle of a sentence so you will be forced to reverse conjugate back into plain form when your so used to using masu everywhere. Japanese children start out with casual and slowly develop politeness, that's why its like a sign of maturity when they start talking more polite. If you are completely new to japanese, go casual first then learn how to conjugate masu form, everything becomes so much easier because you aren't starting with a conjugation already but are learning how to conjugate the plain form to become the form you desire.. and you won't be reverse conjugating masu all the time because you got so used to it out of habit.

The only thing I got wrong in this video was at the end when you asked about not liking yesterday's movie. I immediately thought kinou no but I thought that sounded awkward and wanted to say kinou ni for some reason. but I got i guess the eiga wa sukijanakattadesu. I don't have any of your books but I feel like I've learned more with your videos than I have with the actual books I own one of which is the overrated Genki book. I started with video 1 on this series.

Omg I actually farted right before he asked who farted XDDDDD

Oh, it's funny that in my Genki book it's a side note that じゃなかったです is used "by some speakers" and their main version is じゃありませんでした . Would that be the uber polite one to use?

Somehow in high school I just largely missed on -な adjectives. Even though it's a little weird on changing づす/でした, it actually seems easier, being more modular and consistent without having to change or come up with anything. For years I had this gap and was scared of them, but now they're not so scary. Also, when doing a bunch of Japanese stuff, I seem to come away speaking English a bit differently, lol. でも嫌いじゃないです。

Can よく出来ました be translated to "I used to be able to do that"? Since よく can also often, and when I did something often in the past (ました) it means I used to it. Is this correct? 正しいですか？

O. M. G! Watashi jana kata desu feels AWESOME to say! Watashi kata desu oisii san ;) TY SENSEI!

It's funny that you mention the double standards thing. England is full of that. Many people will say something like 'Give us me keys'... which should be 'Give me my keys'. Us is often used in place of 'me' and me is often used in place of 'my' (I know that sounds confusing given the sentence) but if a foreigner says 'where's me keys?' People will correct them and say 'no, no - it's MY keys.'

Yokatta come from this whoa. And, is yatta an abbreviation of yokatta ? Mind blowing right now if you dont mind me.

How does this work if the second hiragana is か (高い) 高かった just doesn't sound right, but is it?

I miss your videos 🥺

このビデオは面白かなかったです。 What a useful sentence i learned from this video, thanks!

Question. On the last sentence:/If we say Suki janakatta, isn’t that already polite/neutral. Do we really need “desu”?

Now I have 2 questions: 1. If じゃない is an い-adjective, why it is put at the end of the words and not in the front? 2. Let us assume following example: I bought a red car, but I know it has been painted and was blue before I bought it. Can i say あおかったくるまをかいました。My idea is, that the time of the color is in the past according to the time I bought the car. It is something like the past of the past. Can I do this? Or is this still wrong?

Anybody knows why なーadj. not in a book?

I farted when he said who farted

The random story's you tell are just like if I was in a irl class. Altho to be fair watching the 2nd or 3rd time around I need to skip to get to the actual lesson that I'm reviewing. Still love these videos tho

what i did do is play through a pokemon game in japanese, reading almost every sentence, to learn hiragana, katakana and some vocab. Let's just say it took a LONG time LOL

is it ok to translate "was it a interesting movie?! to "えいがはおもしろかったですか" or is "おもしろいえいがでしたか" the correct translation or are both ok? Thanks in advance for any answer

How to know my progress whether i'm completed N5 standard? 助けてください　皆さん

No app or youtube channel explains these concepts better than you do.

I am a little confused about the conjugation of the na-adjectives. For example, in the video the ending じゃない is used to negate a na-adjective in the presense tense. However, looking at the wiki page en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese/Grammar/Adjectives you see that for the causal form the ending ではない is used and for the polite form you use ではありません. What is the correct way? Can anybody explain this?

Please may I know why is it MA after the husband?

So "kind" in the book is "yasashii" (sorry I don't know how to use hiragana on Windows), but on this video in "sekkaku". So I checked my Jisho app and they are both "kind", but which one do I use?

Great lesson, but my brain hurts.

It sounds like you say Bendi rather than Benri (べんり). Can it be said with a hard R sound and still be understood?

I hear you say bendi for "convenient" but on the board it is written in hiragana: "benri"

"guy in the cafe is going to look over at you" -- what does that mean? (10 months into the pandemic)

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God, how long they can be(these adjectives) :)

Hi George, Would i have been correct if i had said Anatano goshujin shisetsu deshita. Translation : Your husband was kind.

So, Is the ~Katta form formal or Informal?

You’re in the bus with me, at school with me, outside with me, and in bed with me.... Wait, なに？！

"you *understand* some things"

I'm just curious, how do you make a Japanese pun?

on the "We didn't think the sushi was delicious" example, couldn't you use "我々"?

This question might have been brought up to you George but I wonder: Why don't you edit parts of your video for the sake of continuity? The edits in the powerpoint has occured more than a few times and it's kind of awkward to watch and is unnecessary. But the content is there and it's good!

Originally thought all adjectives that end in い were い adjectives. What makes an い adjective a い adjective?

I moved to Ohio junior year and I told a girl I was from Philly and she thought that was were Dracula was from. Lol confused Pennsylvania with Transylvania.

I thought past tense な-adjectives use 「だった」? Have I been lied to or is this an advanced word or something? Please clarify for me thank you. ありがとうございます、先生。

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does that mean yokatta, 良い in past mean yokatta or is it just a phrase? sounds right to me.

I'm looking forward for when you start talking about all the uses of という and about ていく and てくる endings, because this stuff still confuses me =|

"He's speaking oriental" LOL

I have my シリ in japanese, and everyday I go "シリサン、全てのアラムをオンにしてください。"

WHO FARTED Not me I'm DYIIIIIIIIIIIING

Not me watching this lesson in class*