Genki Ch 12

Question 1

What method of making statements has been learned in previous chapters?

Answer 1

Reporting facts as they are observed.

Question 2

What is the second method of making a statement in Japanese?

Answer 2

The mode of explaining things

Question 3

If you are offering a sentence as an explanation, does it have to include what you are explaining?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

How do you offer a sentence up as an explanation?

Answer 4

Add んです

Question 5

What is unique about “んです” in reference to tense?

Answer 5

It can be added to any tense and both positive or negative, but the verb is in tense and んです doesn’t conjugate.

Question 6

How is んです generally written?

Answer 6

As のです

Question 7

If んです comes after a noun or a な adjective, what changes?

Answer 7

You add な before んです

Question 8

How do you ask for an explanation?

Answer 8

んですか added to the short form of the predicate.

Question 9

What is another use for んです?

Answer 9

To add something to a sentence that has already been said.

Question 10

What helping verb means “too much?”

Answer 10

すぎる

Question 11

How do you use すぎる?

Answer 11

Connect it to the end of a verb stem

Question 12

How does すぎる conjugate?

Answer 12

As a る verb?

Question 13

What do you do in order to suggest to someone that it is advisable to do a certain action?

Answer 13

Add ほうがいいです to a verb

Question 14

If ほうがいいです is giving advice in the affirmative, what verb form does it follow?

Answer 14

Past tense short form

Question 15

if ほうがいいです is giving advice in the negative, what verb form does it follow?

Answer 15

Present tense short form

Question 16

In addition to から, what is another word that can be used to give an explanation for a situation?

Answer 16

ので

Question 17

What is the real only difference between から and ので?

Answer 17

ので is slightly more formal

Question 18

What do you do with ので if it comes after an adjective or a noun?

Answer 18

Put な between the verb and ので

Question 19

What sort of verb does ので follow?

Answer 19

A short form.

Question 20

What do you add onto a verb to indicate that you MUST do something?

Answer 20

なくちゃいけません

Question 21

What does なくちゃ mean?

Answer 21

If you do not do

Question 22

What does いけません mean?

Answer 22

You cannot go

Question 23

So how is なくちゃいけません roughly translated?

Answer 23

You cannot go not doing

Question 24

How do you form a なくちゃいけません sentence?

Answer 24

Replace ない n the short form negative predicate with なくちゃいけません

Question 25

If the short form negative for 食べる is 食べない, what is the なくちゃいけません form?

Answer 25

食べなくちゃいけません

Question 26

If the short form negative of いう is いわない, what is the なくちゃいけません form?

Answer 26

いわなくちゃいけません

Question 27

If the short form negative of する is しない, what is the なくちゃいけません form?

Answer 27

しなくちゃいけません

Question 28

If the short form negative of くる is こない, what is the なくちゃいけません form?

Answer 28

こなくちゃいけません

Question 29

What is the past tense of なくちゃいけません?

Answer 29

なくちゃいけませんでした

Question 30

How do you take a statement and add the condition of ‘probably’ to it, in order to make a guess or prediction?

Answer 30

After the short form of a verb or an い adjective, add でしょう.

Question 31

How do you use でしょう after a noun or a な adjective?

Answer 31

Just put でしょう right after the noun or adjective.

Question 32

How do you make a でしょう sentence into a question sentence?

Answer 32

でしょうか

Question 33

What is the short form of でしょう?

Answer 33

だろう

Question 34

What is one more use for でしょう?

Answer 34

To see if someone agrees with you.