Learn Japanese language - Using masu and mashita to write and speak a present and past sentence in Japanese.

Today's Lesson: Masu and Mashita

Today's Japanese language lesson is to teach you about perfective and imperfective tense, which are used to write a present and past sentence in Japanese. Basically, the perfective tense is the past tence, and the imperfective tense is the present or future tence.

By the way, unlike English which have three tense including past, present, and future, Japanese has only two tense.

Let's take a look at the example below for the imperfective tence for verbals change to perfective tense. As an example, we use "Eat" and "Ate".

Present	Past

Tabemasu	Tabemashita
I eat	I ate

As you can see, how it is chaned by using "Masu" and "Mashita". The verb + Masu word makes the present tense, and the verb + Mashita makes the past tense.

Watch the video lesson to learn Masu and Mashita

Watch the following video lesson to learn Japanese "masu" and "mashita". Takanori Tomita will explain the perfective and imperfective tense. You also can learn how to speak Japanese by using these language techniques.

Exercise: Let's learn to write in Japanese language

Print out this page, and learn to write the following Japanese language.
In this writing, both kanji and hiragana script was used.

Tabemasu is "I eat", and Tabemashita means "I ate" in Japanese. The first character is kanji symbol and other 3 are written in hiragana symbols.


ta	be	Ma	su

ta	be	Ma	su


ta	be	ma	shi	ta

ta	be	ma	shi	ta

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