Negative tense nouns are step 二 of 四 when it comes to noun tenses (present/future, negative, past and past-negative.) We already know about positive/future tense nouns so this is the next thing on the list. Per Koichi-san, this will help to solidify knowledge of basic Japanese noun grammar as well as create the building blocks to past-negative noun tenses!
So far, we've learned a lot of sentences like, 'It is a monkey.' 'It is a cat.' 'It is an apple.' The syntax for saying 'It is not _____.' is very similar. You just replace the です with the negative form of です, which is じゃありません. It's a mouthful and hard to pronounce. So to say 'It is not a monkey' you'd say さるじゃありません.
Koichi-san mentions that eventually we will learn the less formal version of じゃありません which is shorter and easier but not useful in almost all situations like the neutral formal version that we're learning now. *Random brainpick: I'm guessing the format for negative nouns I learned using the My Japanese Word Coach on the Nintendo DS was the less formal one as there was no じゃ, only ありません.*
There were a couple of new vocab words introduced here which I want to note, although Koichi-san stressed the vocab is not really something to hang on here. It just wouldn't be my style to let something new go un-noted! I want to know it all! (If my brain can keep up!)
cherry - さくらんぼ
peach - もも
tangerine - みかん
bicycle - じてんしゃ
newspaper - しんぶん
apple - りんご
We practiced a few sentences based on a picture of a みかん. The first one was the question: みかんですか to which the answer was はい、みかんです because the picture was of a tangerine. Next was the question さくらんぼですか to which the answer was いいえ、さくらんぼじゃありません because the pictured fruit was not a cherry.
*いいえ is no in 日本語 while はい is yes.*
The practice for this lesson was more than I could complete tonight so I will finish this blog post tomorrow!
またね!
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