/is shitty at every language except english ;;

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somehow i managed to do my chinese paper, even though i forgot what 一亿 is. large chinese and japanese numbers KILL ME, when people say shit like "2.5万" i'm whipping out my calculator and multiplying 2.5 by ten thousand and aughhh i forgot that 一亿 is 100 million, not a billion; I HATE YOU GIANT NUMBERS

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[distorted_r]

Congrats! For having such little amount of time you did good. :D

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thanks bb!

[pimmy]

what's the difference between "oishii deshita" and "oishikatta desu"?

Duuuude I am totally confused about the exact same thing. Maybe you only need to conjugate adjectives when the sentence isn't of the "desu" sort? I'm just pulling that out of my butt though, I have no idea!

Wouldn't "was pretty" be "Kirei datta"? or uh.. whatever the past tense of an informal desu is I have no idea if that's right

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i honestly have no idea about the whole -datta thing; i think you may be right, but i'm not entirely sure. we sorta touched on informal sentences, but we never really got onto what you'd say instead of "desu". (i was sorta under the impression that you just don't say anything, like you'd just say "kyou wa samui", though i'm sure that's not right since i've heard people say "da" at the end of sentences in anime.)

on the oishii deshita/oishikatta desu note, i wonder if it's the same for -na adjectives. so like... idk, kirei de wa arimasen deshita (... i assume that's actually grammatically OK and that i'm not just pulling random words out of my ass...) versus kireijanakatta desu.

[pimmy]

Ah, it's not too hard. Da instead of Desu, Datta instead of ..deshita? stuff like that. Uhg I don't have my book with me.. maybe I'll look online. It's so hard to find answers to stuff though when you don't have like.. a teacher XD

Well apparently theres 3 types of sentences, iirc. Ones that end in "desu" and ummm two others but I forget. ones that end in verbs like -mashita and -masu and stuff is another.

Adjectives still confuse me though WHY ARE WE CONJUGATING THEM

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hmmmm, okay. so sentences that don't have to end in desu can just be stripped of desu/da in plain form? ADJECTIVES, YEAH, THEY KILL ME INSIDE. and certain verbs, too. i remember stuff like yomu --> yonde, but i forgot stuff like kaku --> kaite until today. =__= and the verb "to work"! something beginning with an H? i always cheat with that one and say arubaito wo suru. >.>

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are you playing a game that teaches you japanese? :O or are you bludging along in a game that is in japanese? i tried doing the latter with a game in chinese before with hilarious results.

[criminalize]

oh, that's awesome! what's the name of the game?