Comments on: Ways to say です (desu)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:14:00 +0000

You cannot use だ in a question because it makes an assertion.
Although です and だ are present tense, and polite and causal, respectively, です is not a polite equivalent of だ. だ is used to make assertions, whereas です is not; だ can be used in sentence fragments, whereas です can only be used at the end of a sentences or in direct quotes; and だ cannot be used in questions, whereas ですcan.You can only use だ at the end of sentences and sentence fragments which end in な-adjectives, nouns, or sentences and sentence fragments which end in explanatory の or ん. You can use です only in sentences which end in な-adjectives, nouns, or sentences which end in the explanatory の or ん. You can only use です in these cases, and only in these cases can you replace です with だ, with the exception that です can be used in these cases if the sentences are questions, whereas だ cannot.

By: Annie Öhlén

Annie Öhlén — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:32:00 +0000

Gozaimashita is past time and gozaimasu is present time.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:01:32 +0000

IT”S DES PEOPLE!
(How do u rit in Jap on dis site)

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:01:32 +0000

IT”S DES PEOPLE!
(How do u rit in Jap on dis site)

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:46:41 +0000

Isn’t desu said like “des”? (Like most common)

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:46:41 +0000

Isn’t desu said like “des”? (Like most common)

By: vaq

vaq — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:47:22 +0000

someone said it would sound weird to use だ in a question, which i gues kinda does sound weird if you use か as a question ender (to me too i guess) but if u end the question without an actual question marker i think it would sound normal like in “誰だ?” or also i think it sounds ok to say it with question ender かい like in どこだかい but then again im not very advanced in japanese so I dont really know. anyone know for sure?

By: vaq

vaq — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:47:22 +0000

By: JohtoKen

JohtoKen — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:31:36 +0000

When you want to make it frustrating to bring an anime overseas = であります。

Why do I say this? Try translating the episode titles of ケロロ軍曹 into English without leaving in the であります in the title.

By: JohtoKen

JohtoKen — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:31:36 +0000

When you want to make it frustrating to bring an anime overseas = であります。

Why do I say this? Try translating the episode titles of ケロロ軍曹 into English without leaving in the であります in the title.