Learning Japanese - Lesson 4 - Going to a Destination

To go - ikimasu


negative form:

To go - ikimasen



Place + ni + ikimasu
                    ikimasen (negative)



* [ni] particle is placed after a place


Vocabulary:

• department store - depāto
• work - shigoto
• party - pāti (no r sound mostly in Japanese)
• station (train, bus, etc) - eki

Examples:

• depāto ni ikimasu (to go to department store)
• eki ni ikimasen (not to go to station)

*For, questions, just add [ka] at the end of the sentence

• Question : pāti ni ikimasu ka? (to go to party?) 
• Answer : hai, ikimasu (yes, will go)
• Answer : iie, ikimasen (no, will not go) 

*Please note that there is no direct translation for English to Japanese and vice versa so just bear with the noticeable patterns

• Question : shigoto ni ikimasu ka? (to go to work)
• Answer : hai, ikimasu (yes, will go)
• Answer : iie, ikimasen (no, will not go)

Vocabulary:

• today - kyou
• yesterday - kinō
• tomorrow - ashita
• day after tomorrow - asatte
• day before yesterday - ototoi

Examples:

• ashita depato ni ikimasu (tomorrow, to go to department store)
• asatte eki ni ikimasen (day after tomorrow, will not go to station)
• kino shigoto ni ikimashita (yesterday, went to work)
• ikimasu (positive); ikimashita (positive past)
• ikimasen (negative); ikimasen deshita (negative past)
• Question : Ototoi depato ni ikimashita ka? (day before yesterday, went to department store?)
• Answer: hai, ikimashita (positive past)
• Answer: iie, ikimasen deshita (negaive past)

Points to Remember:

Sentence Structure:

place + ni + ikimasu (or other tense of the verb)

non-specific time + place + ni + ikimasu (or other tense of the verb)

To create a question, use the word [ka] at the end of the sentence.