Japanese Language Made Simpler – Lesson 4

Today, we will start to form ‘action’ sentences, like I eat rice, she buys a bag, etc.

For such sentences, this is the format to use:

[Pronoun] は [noun]を[verb]

For eg:

• Watashi wa gohan o tabemasu. = 私はご飯を食べます。= I eat rice.
  (gohan = rice; tabemasu = eat)

• Kanojo wa kaban o kaimasu. = 彼女はかばんを買います。
  (kaban = bag; kaimasu = buy)
  
  

For simpler action sentences like he runs, they walk:

[Pronoun] は[verb]

Thus,

• Kare wa hashirimasu. = 彼は走ります。= He runs.
  (hashirimasu = run)

• Karera wa arukimasu. = 彼らは歩きます。They walk.
  (arukimasu = walk)

* In Japanese language, there are no singular and plural forms. Thus the same verb: hashirimasu and arukimasu, can be used for a single person or many people.