[Lesson4] The Present Tense | Talking about Habits in Japanese

Hello! Konnichiwa! Welcome to Japarot! In this video, we are going to learn how to ask questions about someone's habits in Japanese with phrases like Do you drink coffee? and What do you eat every morning? After watching a short story, you'll learn how to make a sentence with a Japanese verb in present tense. Now let's get started! Midori-san, main yasa nani wo tabemasu ka? Genmai onigiri to sarada wo tabemasu. Ehh, herushii desu ne. Hai, kouhii wo nomimasu ka? Ie, nomimasen. Main yasa, green smoothie wo nomimasu. Waa, kenkou shikou desu ne. Hai, main yasa yoga wo shimasu. Face pack mo shimasu yo. Ehh, bishiki ga takai desu ne. Ah, sore wa? Oyatsu desu. Ah, mousugu ohiru desu ne. Ramen wo tabemasu ka? Shokuyoku oosei desu ne. Grammar points. Main yasa, onigiri wo tabemasu. I eat onigiri every morning. This is a sentence stating your habit. Main yasa, every morning. Onigiri, a rice ball. Tabemasu, eat. The verb ending with masu makes the sentence polite. O is a Japanese particle that is attached after the direct object of a transitive verb. Also, this character o has the same pronunciation as this hiragana o. But we use this o for particularly writing the particle. Let's look at another sentence. Ashita, sushi wo tabemasu. I'll eat sushi tomorrow. This is a sentence stating a thing that will happen in the future. Ashita, tomorrow. In Japanese, we use the same form for the present and future tense verbs. Now, let's make a question sentence. What do you eat every morning? What in Japanese is nani? Main yasa, nani wo tabemasu ka? You can simply replace the object of the sentence with the interrogative nani and add ka at the end of the sentence. Next, let's try using these words. Nomimasu, drink. Kouhii, coffee. Could you make a sentence, Do you drink coffee? Kouhii wo nomimasu ka? If the answer is yes, you can say Hai, nomimasu. Yes, I drink. If the answer is no, you will say Iie or Ie, nomimasen. No, I don't drink. For the negative form of the present tense verb, we simply replace masu with masen. Now, it's your turn. Let's try using this word, shimasu, do. Could you make a question sentence, Do you do yoga? Yoga wo shimasu ka? Great. Now, could you say, Yes, I do yoga. Hai, yoga wo shimasu. Then, how about, No, I don't do yoga. Iie or Ie, yoga wo shimasen. Ie, yoga wo shimasen. With the word shimasu, you can describe variety of actions. For example, Shigoto wo shimasu. Shigoto wo shimasu, I work. Or, Sakka wo shimasu. Sakka wo shimasu, I play soccer. Great job. Thank you for watching until the end. See you again in the next lesson. Dewa mata.