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kittydesadeRight. New plan. Review ALL THE DAMN VERBS today and tomorrow. Then resume schedule. Or maybe just, that order of things.
sein: Ich bin, du bist, er ist, wir sind, ihr seid, sie sind, Sie sind
Ich bin Amerikanerin.
Wir sind ... um. Apprentice courtesans. I should really look that one up.
Guerrero ist verruckt. Seriously.
arbeiten: Ich arbeite, du arbeitest, sie arbeitet, wir arbeiten, ihr arbeitest, sie arbeiten, Sie arbeiten
Ihr arbeitest heute Morgen.
Arbeitest du Samstags?
Wir arbeiten nicht heute Wochenende.
gehen: Ich gehe, du gehst er geht, wir gehen, ihr gehst, sie gehen, Sie gehen
Ich gehe gern wandern.
Wir gehen inlineskaten heute Wochenende.
hören:
Ich höre, du hörst, sie hört, wir hören, ihr hört, sie hören, Sie hören
Guerrero hört Baroque gern.
Ich höre klassische Rock gern.
Wir hören Trans-Siberian Orchestra heute Dienstag.
heißen
Ich heiß, du heißt, er heißt, wir heißen, ihr heißt, sie heißen, Sie heißen.
Ich heiß Jaguar
Er heißt Guerrero
Wir heißen Jaguar und Anna.
Sie heißen Tron und Clu.
finden:
Ich finde, du findest, sie findet, wir finden, ihr findet, sie finden, Sie finden
Ich finde Tron: Legacy sehr gut.
And now I'm bored with that and tired and need more sleep and to do my Japanese. So!
Asking for and giving permission, using verb stem + てもいいですか.
たばこを すっても いいですか。/いいでしょうか。/かまいませんか。
May I smoke a cigarette?
はい、 どうぞ。
Yes, please (go ahead).
すみませんが、 ちょっと。
I'm sorry, but...
チョー： 先生、 授業をやすんでも いいでしょうか。
Professor, may I be absent from the class?
先生： どうしてですか。
Why?
チョー： ちょっと ねつが あるんです。
I have a slight fever.
先生： ああ、 そうですか。 いいですよ。
Oh, is that so. That's fine./You may.
* The following are common ways to respond positively to a request for permission.
はいええ どうぞ。 Yes, please go ahead.
はいええ かまりません。 That's fine. I don't care.
ええ、 もちろん。 Yes, of course.
Although はい、 いいです is grammatically correct, it would be used only when a superior is granting permission to someone hierarchically inferior.
* Answering negatively can be awkward (Think of how you would deny a request in your own language. [ed. or any other one I know...]) As in other countries, the Japanese tend to avoid direct prohibition such as "No you may not" and use instead phrases such as the following:
すみませんが、 ちょっと I am sorry, but...
ええっと、 それは ちょっと Well, that would be a bit...
すみません、 それは ちょっと こまるんですが。 I am sorry, that would be a little troublesome.
In such a situation, the word ちょっと serves to deflect whatever tension may arise from withholding permission. It also saves the respondent from spelling out his or her reason for denying permission.
* ～ても いいでしょうかis more tentative and thus more polite than ～ても いいですか, but it can also be used toward someone in one's peer group. ～ても かまいませんか is as polite as ～ても いいでしょうか. Although it ends with a negative, the way you answer is the same as ～ても いいでしょうか.
One of the horrors of having an analytical mind. I think. I think that's the term for it, is that I take a few paragraphs of an interview with someone, smash it into a couple articles and what I know from other interviews about the person, and extrapolate all kinds of profile type data. Which wouldn't be half as bad if wild guesses made in other circumstances didn't turn out to be right so damn much of the time. And now I'm horribly depressed and want to hit people for being invasive ...
Never mind. Um. Yeah. Never mind. I have writing I could be doing instead of dwelling on things I can't help and don't know anything about except an interview excerpt and various other previous interviews and a vague knowledge of another party in the situation.
WRITING NOW. Come on, Jag, focus. God I am so tired of this whole up at 5 am thing. I'd adjust my own schedule, get up earlier and go to bed earlier, except I suspect the boy is moving to third shift soon and then I'd just have to adjust back. Still. I've finally reached the conclusion that the reason I'm so fucking tired all the time is because I'm not getting a solid night's sleep and ARGH. Do not like.
sein: Ich bin, du bist, er ist, wir sind, ihr seid, sie sind, Sie sind
Ich bin Amerikanerin.
Wir sind ... um. Apprentice courtesans. I should really look that one up.
Guerrero ist verruckt. Seriously.
arbeiten: Ich arbeite, du arbeitest, sie arbeitet, wir arbeiten, ihr arbeitest, sie arbeiten, Sie arbeiten
Ihr arbeitest heute Morgen.
Arbeitest du Samstags?
Wir arbeiten nicht heute Wochenende.
gehen: Ich gehe, du gehst er geht, wir gehen, ihr gehst, sie gehen, Sie gehen
Ich gehe gern wandern.
Wir gehen inlineskaten heute Wochenende.
hören:
Ich höre, du hörst, sie hört, wir hören, ihr hört, sie hören, Sie hören
Guerrero hört Baroque gern.
Ich höre klassische Rock gern.
Wir hören Trans-Siberian Orchestra heute Dienstag.
heißen
Ich heiß, du heißt, er heißt, wir heißen, ihr heißt, sie heißen, Sie heißen.
Ich heiß Jaguar
Er heißt Guerrero
Wir heißen Jaguar und Anna.
Sie heißen Tron und Clu.
finden:
Ich finde, du findest, sie findet, wir finden, ihr findet, sie finden, Sie finden
Ich finde Tron: Legacy sehr gut.
And now I'm bored with that and tired and need more sleep and to do my Japanese. So!
Asking for and giving permission, using verb stem + てもいいですか.
たばこを すっても いいですか。/いいでしょうか。/かまいませんか。
May I smoke a cigarette?
はい、 どうぞ。
Yes, please (go ahead).
すみませんが、 ちょっと。
I'm sorry, but...
チョー： 先生、 授業をやすんでも いいでしょうか。
Professor, may I be absent from the class?
先生： どうしてですか。
Why?
チョー： ちょっと ねつが あるんです。
I have a slight fever.
先生： ああ、 そうですか。 いいですよ。
Oh, is that so. That's fine./You may.
* The following are common ways to respond positively to a request for permission.
はいええ どうぞ。 Yes, please go ahead.
はいええ かまりません。 That's fine. I don't care.
ええ、 もちろん。 Yes, of course.
Although はい、 いいです is grammatically correct, it would be used only when a superior is granting permission to someone hierarchically inferior.
* Answering negatively can be awkward (Think of how you would deny a request in your own language. [ed. or any other one I know...]) As in other countries, the Japanese tend to avoid direct prohibition such as "No you may not" and use instead phrases such as the following:
すみませんが、 ちょっと I am sorry, but...
ええっと、 それは ちょっと Well, that would be a bit...
すみません、 それは ちょっと こまるんですが。 I am sorry, that would be a little troublesome.
In such a situation, the word ちょっと serves to deflect whatever tension may arise from withholding permission. It also saves the respondent from spelling out his or her reason for denying permission.
* ～ても いいでしょうかis more tentative and thus more polite than ～ても いいですか, but it can also be used toward someone in one's peer group. ～ても かまいませんか is as polite as ～ても いいでしょうか. Although it ends with a negative, the way you answer is the same as ～ても いいでしょうか.
One of the horrors of having an analytical mind. I think. I think that's the term for it, is that I take a few paragraphs of an interview with someone, smash it into a couple articles and what I know from other interviews about the person, and extrapolate all kinds of profile type data. Which wouldn't be half as bad if wild guesses made in other circumstances didn't turn out to be right so damn much of the time. And now I'm horribly depressed and want to hit people for being invasive ...
Never mind. Um. Yeah. Never mind. I have writing I could be doing instead of dwelling on things I can't help and don't know anything about except an interview excerpt and various other previous interviews and a vague knowledge of another party in the situation.
WRITING NOW. Come on, Jag, focus. God I am so tired of this whole up at 5 am thing. I'd adjust my own schedule, get up earlier and go to bed earlier, except I suspect the boy is moving to third shift soon and then I'd just have to adjust back. Still. I've finally reached the conclusion that the reason I'm so fucking tired all the time is because I'm not getting a solid night's sleep and ARGH. Do not like.