たかいびるのちかくにとしょかんがあります。 Takai biru no chikaku ni toshokan ga arimasu.

テーブルの下にかばんがあります。 | Teburu no shita ni kaban ga arimasu. テーブルの上にはながあります。| Teburu no ue ni hana ga arimasu. PREPOSITION: The prepositional words are added to the description of the place, and this is situated in the beginning of the sentence. | There is a man and a woman at the park.Ģ.

公園におとこの人とおんなの人がります。| Kouen ni otoko no hito to onna no hito ga rimasu. あそこにくるまがあります。 | Asoko ni kuruma ga arimasu. To add a location to the above, the particle ‘に | ni’ is used: 先生と学生がいます。| Sensei to gakusei ga imasu. The verb ‘います | imasu’ also means to exist, but is used when referring to people, animals, etc (animate). b) The verb ‘あります | arimasu’ means to exist, and this is used when referring to things (non animate objects). EXISTENCE: There’re two main things to note before proceeding: a) In forming a sentence about the existence of things and people, the particle ‘が | ga’ is used.

Describing the location using prepositionsġ.

Describing the existence of things and people.

Tags animate, asking questions, between, department store, existence, japanese level 2, location, non animate, nouns, particle ha, particle ni, prepositions, stores, things, verbs Day #2.4.2.

ポストとデパートのあいだにあります。| Between the department store and post box. スーパーのまえにいます。| In front of the supermarket. We can also use previous knowledge of asking where something is: In English it’s something like “There is a watch on the table” and “The watch is on the table”. – – – – – – いつつあります。| There are 5 apples.īasically, the difference between talking about the existence of a thing and the location of a thing is the sentence structure and the particle used. The line of counting in sentences goes – object + particle ga + counter + verb – apples + particle + 5 + existence To ask “how many people”, ‘なんにん | nannin’ is used. To ask “how many”, ‘いくつ | ikutsu’ is used.

To count general objects such as fruits, a specific numbering goes like this – Counting: general objects, people, machines, flat objects.I gave 1 to my father and 1 to my mother. Ima, zenbude ikutsu arimasu ka? | Yesterday, I bought 3 apples. We use counters to solve math problems too: More counters in a sentence, different particles for different verbsĮxamples of using different verbs and particles:įor existence, we use particle ‘が | ga’ and verb ‘あります | arimasu’įor verbs like buying or asking for something at a shopping mall, we use the particle ‘を | o’.

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