Originally posted by Alseides
Watashi wa daigaku ni ikimasu. (I am going to the college.)
Here is the breakdown:
Watashi=subject
Daigaku=object {college)
ikimasu=verb
Not to nitpick, but Japanese has a COMPLETELY different timeline than we do(English). -masu form alone is not current, masu form is either I will do something, or I do something... more relatable to habitual than current.
daigaku ni ikimasu is more like I goto college(I don't think its in the sense we mean; IKU is "to go.(process of movement)"
A better example of this would be;
Sushi o tabemasu = I eat sushi. Like, you do something, not you're eating sushi.
To say I am going to the college, like on your way, you would use
Watashi wa daigaku ni itte imasu. TE form of verbs + imasu(iru) is the process of doing.
shukudai o shiTE IMASU = I am DOING my homework.
sushi o tabete imasu = I am eating sushi
We can now expand this to Time, Subject, Location, Object, Verb.
Kyoo, watashi wa toshokan de Nihongo o benkyoo shimasu.
(Today, I studied Japanese in the library.)
Breakdown:
Kyoo= time (today}[b}
Watashi=subject
toshokan= location {library}
Nihongo= object {Japanese language}
Benkyoo Shimasu= verb (to study}
Gonbatte! (do your best!) [/B]
ganbatte
Also,
kyou, watashi wa toshokan de nihongo o benkyou o shiMASHITA. = today, in the library, I studiED Japanese.
As said before, MASU form is more I do something. MASHI
TA is I DID ____. SURU is dictionary form of shimashi
ta and it basically means TO DO. You add whatever you did before O SURU and its you did that. This only works with things that don't have their own verb form.
Like SHIGOTO = work.
Shigoto o suru. To work.
All this aside, Alseides, you did a GREAT job. I had the same idea of masu during second year, it wasn't until the beginning of third year that my teacher went into better detail about it. And today we were discussing again how Japanese has a different timeline.
otukaresama deshi
ta
