This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...associated with it; as--Yama ga tako gozaimasu, j m k Uh mountain high is J The Certain Present of aru and of arimas u are seldom used in this connection accompanied by adjectives in the u or o form as the notion of " to be" is inherent in the adjective itself. Thus the last sentence would be, in a less respectful form ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...associated with it; as--Yama ga tako gozaimasu, j m k Uh mountain high is J The Certain Present of aru and of arimas u are seldom used in this connection accompanied by adjectives in the u or o form as the notion of " to be" is inherent in the adjective itself. Thus the last sentence would be, in a less respectful form, "Yama ga takai" (see p. 118). De ara, de atta, de aro, etc. (familiar). De arimasu, de arimashita, de arimasho, etc. (politer). De gozaimasu, de gozaimashlta, de gozaimasho, etc. (politest). These are forms of the verb "to be" without "there," and their signification is therefore simply "I am, he, she, it is," etc., and similarly throughout the conjugation. Desu is an abbreviation of ds gozaimasu; deshlta of de gozaimashlta, and desh6 of ds gozaimasho. Examples. Kore wa nan de aru (or da)? j.g; this what is (itJ J. Korede mina desu ka, j/s, w/? this with all is? J 0-sawagi deshlta, A11 b, . ' All was in an uproar, uproar (it) was J Hiroi-totte kureta wa do What sort of a man mck-up-hamng-taken gave hma I..7., j., y, .. r was tt who picked Iu hlto de atta, t called man was '"' Mazu sore-kkiri de gozaimastl, Well, that is about well that-only it (is) j all. Iru and Oru. The real signification of these verbs is "to dwell," "to live," "to be (in a certain place)," but they are employed mostly as auxiliaries, as explained on p. 93. Naru, to be, appears more frequently in the classical language than in the colloquial, although it is not rare to hear the Conditional Form used as an auxiliary with the Indicative tenses of verbs. Thus iku nareba or iku nara, for "if he goes," are wore common than ikeba, and similarly we may say itta nareba or itta nara, for &q...
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