Showing posts with label clauses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clauses. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Subordinate Clauses and Gobi

With nouns describing nouns, you just put them together.
For example,

International Education Center
国際
教育センタ

There is NO da/desu!!!
However, you can use the -janai, -datta, -janakatta (past and/or negative) to modify, though.

Person who is not student do not go to school.
学生じゃないは、学校行かない



So... I bet you're wondering... What's a gobi?
Either way, I'll tell you:
A gobi ends a sentence with a "tone"; we have them in english, too.

the gobi ね looks for agreement.

Cool, huh?*
"huh?" here is the same as ね. It's like "isn't it?", or "right?"


the gobi よ informs of something new.

Neat,
you know?*
よ is the equivalent of "you know" in English.

You can also use よね as "you know.. .., right?" they must be in that order, though.


*you don't use question marks with them in Japanese.