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1. 0:00This is a sample lesson of a TE Form
2. 0:02Master Course at Smile Nihongo Academy.
3. 0:05Learn more about the course at Smile
4. 0:09Nihongo.com/TE. As we discussed in the
5. 0:15very first lesson of this course, one
6. 0:18function of the TE form is to list
7. 0:21multiple actions in one sentence.
8. 0:24For instance, let's say you want to say
9. 0:26something like this. I wake up at 6, do
10. 0:31yoga, eat breakfast and go to work. You
11. 0:37have four verbs in this sentence.
12. 0:39Wake up, do, eat, and go. Or, you may want to
13. 0:46say something like this. My wife wakes up
14. 0:49at 6, does yoga, eats breakfast and goes to
15. 0:55work. Again you have four verbs in one
16. 0:59sentence here. To say these sentences in
17. 1:03Japanese you have to say the first three
18. 1:06verbs in TE form and the one at the end
19. 1:09of the sentence in MASU form. In this
20. 1:13lesson, I'm going to walk you through how
21. 1:15to use TE forms to construct
22. 1:17sentences with multiple verbs.
23. 1:24Let's begin with sentences with two verbs.
24. 1:28I often go to Starbucks and buy coffee.
25. 1:33Here we have two verbs. Go and buy. And
26. 1:37the first verb go has to be in the TE form.
27. 1:41Let's finish the first part of the
28. 1:44sentence. By the way I'm not going to
29. 1:48state the subject I, watashi wa, in the
30. 1:51sentence since in Japanese the subject I
31. 1:54is often dropped and, in fact, it sounds
32. 1:58more natural that way without, watashi wa,
33. 2:01in the sentence.
34. 2:03Okay the first part. I often go to
35. 2:07Starbucks,
36. 2:09よく yoku often, スタバに sutaba ni to Starbucks, いって itte
37. 2:18go and. Please know that the verb いって itte
38. 2:24here means "go and" in English. By putting
39. 2:29the verb in the TE form, you are
40. 2:32indicating that a sentence doesn't end
41. 2:34there.
42. 2:35It's still going to continue so you
43. 2:38don't have to use the word "and" in the
44. 2:40sentence here. Instead you simply use the
45. 2:44TE form of the verb.
46. 2:47Let's finish the second part of the
47. 2:50sentence. Buy coffee コーヒーを Koohii o かいます kaimasu.
48. 2:57Very good. Now the sentence is complete.
49. 3:00I often go to Starbucks and buy coffee is
50. 3:05yoku Staba ni itte, koohii o kaimasu. Yoku
51. 3:13Staba ni itte, koohii o kaimasu.
52. 3:19By the way, this is a Japanese comma. You
53. 3:25don't have to use it all the time but
54. 3:27just so you know many people tend to use
55. 3:30it after each TE form especially when
56. 3:33they're writing an essay, official
57. 3:36document, or formal letter. OK, now let's
58. 3:44change the tense of the sentence. This
59. 3:47time we want to say the sentence in the
60. 3:49past tense like this. Yesterday I went to
61. 3:54Starbucks and bought coffee. How do we do
62. 3:59that?
63. 4:02Previously you learned that TE form
64. 4:05doesn't have any tense. It's completely
65. 4:09neutral and influenced by the verb at
66. 4:11the end of the sentence, so that means we
67. 4:16only need to change the ending verb
68. 4:18かいます kaimasu to the past tense. Let's do it.
69. 4:23きのう Kinoo, yesterday, スタバに Sutaba ni, to Starbucks
70. 4:30いって itte, went and, コーヒーを koohii o coffee, かいました kaimashita bought.
71. 4:40That's it
72. 4:43Yesterday I went to Starbucks and bought
73. 4:46coffee in Japanese is きのう Kinoo スタバに Sutaba ni いって itte,
74. 4:53コーヒーを koohii o かいました kaimashita.
75. 4:57きのうスタバにいって、コーヒーをかいました。Kinoo Sutaba ni itte, koohii o kaimashita.
76. 5:04Again what matters here is the ending.
77. 5:07The ending verb decides the tense of
78. 5:11the entire sentence, so you don't change
79. 5:14the TE form for the past tense or any
80. 5:17tense. Okay let's continue with the
81. 5:24lesson. Now let's say we want to add one
82. 5:28more action to the sentence after buy
83. 5:30coffee like this. I often go to Starbucks
84. 5:35buy coffee and take a walk. Now we have
85. 5:42three verbs in the sentence and the
86. 5:45action "buy coffee" no longer ends the
87. 5:48sentence. So that means we need to
88. 5:51convert かいます kaimasu into the TE form, which is
89. 5:55かって katte, かって katte, and then end the sentence with
90. 6:02"take a walk." さんぽします sanpo shimasu.
91. 6:07Now the sentence is complete.
92. 6:12I often go to Starbucks, buy coffee and
93. 6:16take a walk in Japanese is よく yoku スタバに Sutaba ni いって itte, コーヒーをかって koohii o katte, さんぽします sanpo shimasu.
94. 6:30よく Yoku スタバに Sutaba ni いって itte, コーヒーを koohii o かって katte, さんぽします sanpo shimasu.
95. 6:37And of course if you want to say the
96. 6:40sentence in the past tense you only need
97. 6:43to change the ending verb. Yesterday I
98. 6:47went to Starbucks bought coffee and took
99. 6:51a walk.
100. 6:54きのう kinoo スタバに Sutaba ni いって itte, コーヒーを koohii o かって katte,
101. 7:01さんぽしました Sanpo shimashita. From here in the course I'll
102. 7:08be teaching you how to change the Speech
103. 7:11style from Formal to Informal speech
104. 7:14when you have multiple TE forms in
105. 7:16your sentences. You will also have some
106. 7:20exercises to improve your pronunciation
107. 7:22and fluency in Japanese.
108. 7:26Join me in the TE form master course and
109. 7:29you're going to learn all about TE form.
110. 7:34Go to SmileNihongo.com/TE to learn more about the course