Lesson1 I am I am not Basic Japanese Grammar

Good morning Oh sorry Are you Professor Ueda No I'm not Professor Ueda I'm Igaraashi Oh sorry You're You "You" is not commonly used in Japanese when you already know the person's name Oh sorry Oh you're Midori-san right Yes Nice to meet you I'm Ueda Are you Professor Ueda That's right Good A kind-looking teacher Grammar Po I am I'm Ueda I'm Igarashi The sentence ending です makes the sentence polite You can also omit the subject 私 if it's clear from the context Now let's form a question sentence To form a question simply add the particle か at the end of a sentence Ueda-sensei desu ka This means Are you Teacher Ueda In Japanese 先生 means teacher If you want to say Are you Mr Igarashi Can you guess how you would say that Are you Mr Igarashi In Japanese さん means Mr or Ms Wait a minute Here you might wonder why the word you あなた isn't used at all The word あなた isn't typically used when speaking directly to someone In fact in Japanese using あなた with someone you know can come across as impolite But what if you don't know their names The answer is you can simply omit the subject whether it's "you" or the person's name and form the sentence as usual In Japanese we often omit the subject when it's clear from the context Next let's answer the question Yes means はい and no means いいえ For the question 植田先生ですか Are you Teacher Ueda If the answer is yes はい、そうです Yes that's right If the answer is no you can say いいえ or いえ I am not the teacher No I'm not the teacher じゃありません is the negative form of です Just a quick note: in spoken Japanese we often say いえ instead of いいえ but most Japanese textbooks use いいえ to mean no So it's always wise to know both Finally if you want to say no I'm not in a much shorter form Then you can simply say "chigaimasu " That means it's not or I'm not I have a quick question for you Do you know how to say yes and no casually Yeah is the casual way to say yes Yeah is the casual way to say no All right Thank you for watching until the end If you enjoy videos like this please subscribe to my channel I appreciate your support See you in the next lesson Until next time