4. Base 2 + masen

Lesson 4
Base 2 + masen

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Now that you're a little familiar with Base 2, let's try masen, which is the negative form of masu. Look at these yodan examples:

• Watashi wa kasa o kaimasen. (I'm not going to buy an umbrella.)
• Kare wa machimasen. (He won't wait.)
• Kimiko wa Osaka ni ikimasen. (Kimiko isn't going to Osaka.)

And some ichidan:

• Watashi wa ima tabemasen. (I'm not going to eat now.)
• Kanojo wa kasa o karimasen. (She isn't going to borrow an umbrella.)

Easy enough, right? In the next lesson we'll try past tense.

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Word Check
kasa: umbrella
kau: to buy
kare: he (him)
matsu: to wait
iku: to go
ima: now
taberu: to eat
kanojo: she (her)
kariru: to borrow


(Verbs are shown in their plain form.)