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6

Lower Intermediate Lesson

Looks Like...

Formal Kanji Formal Kana Formal Romanization English Vocabulary Grammar Points

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Kanji

Listen to the full conversation.

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b cd$ef !" #$%'&&301$2$&354bc6%i25!i25@5" bc6%A01$2 pq@C6 g A%AC4$F5" GHIF0pC h S$FT@U" VV IrTsC#$aaU"

Formal Romanization

Kana

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Yoshi Natsuko Yoshi Natsuko Yoshi Natsuko

Boku ga ageta bara no ki wa doko Kocchi. Hidoi!! Shinis Bokura no ai mo shinis Fuyu dakara hana mo ai mo kareru no yo. Ja, haru niwa fukkatsu suru n da ne. Ee, tabun hoka no hito to ne.

tvu5wyxyyyyxyyyyyxyxyytyyytyyxy ty

English
Yoshi Where's the rose bush I gave you?

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Natsuko Yoshi Natsuko Yoshi Natsuko

Here. That's terrible!! It looks like it's going to die! This is a symbol of our love. Is our love going to die, too? In winter, flowers and love wither. But, in the spring they come back. Yeah, but maybe with someone else.

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Kanji

d ef $ i25!i2 C4$F p C h

Kana

Vocabulary
Romaji baranoki sh kareru fukkatsu

tyyyt

English rosebush symbol to wither restoration, come back

Grammar Points

The auxilary adjective s Today's grammar point is the auxilary adjective s . This auxiliary adjective is used to indicate the form, condition or state in which something appears, and it is always used to indicate one's assumption/judgment based on what one can see. It is therefore equivalent to the English form "looks like ~". S attaches directly to the connective form (the -masu stem) of verbs and auxiliary verbs and to the roots of adjectives and auxiliary adjectives.

ty

ty

ty

There are, however, exceptions to this pattern. The s form of adjectives whose stem consists of only one kana, such as ii/yoi (good) and nai (nonextant), require that sa be inserted between the root and the s auxiliary. Therefore, ii/yoi becomes yosas , and nai becomes nasas .

t y t y The negative form of sty yyy yyyyyyy styxy

t y t y

or s

ty .

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Verb Class Class 1

Dictionary Form masu stem naku naki

+ sou da/desu

S f1$25@ nakisty yyy

English It looks like someone is about to cry It looks like someone/somethi ng will leave. It looks like someone/somethi ng will do something. It looks like someone/somethi ng will come.

Class 2

deru Class 3

de

S$F
suru

shi

t y yyy 1$25@S shisty yyy

des kis

S 1$25@

Class 3

kuru

ki

S 1$25@

ty yyy

Examples:

     0 F       $ 1 5 2  @ " Ano ko ga ty y y y  y y  y   x yyy y y t y y !"#'&%$&('51$25@U" Ano kumo mite! Ame ga furis t y y y

It looks like that child will eat the cake on the table.

Look at those clouds! It looks like it's going to rain.

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