In this lesson, we will go over various ways to express actions that take place in a certain time-frame. In particular, we will learn how to say: 1) an action has just been completed, 2) an action is taken immediately after another action took place, 3) an action occurs while another action is ongoing, and 4) one continuously repeats an action.<\/p>\n
This is a very useful grammar that is used to indicate that one has just finished doing something. For instance, the first time I really wished I knew how to say something like this was when I wanted to politely decline an invitation to eat because I had just eaten. To do this, take the past tense of verb that you want to indicate as just being completed and add \u300c\u3070\u304b\u308a\u300d. This is used with only the past tense of verbs and is not to be confused with the \u300c\u3070\u304b\u308a\u300d used with nouns to express amounts.<\/p>\n
Just like the other type of \u300c\u3070\u304b\u308a\u300d we have covered before, in slang, you can hear people use \u300c\u3070\u3063\u304b\u300d instead of \u300c\u3070\u304b\u308a\u300d.\n<\/p>\n
| Positive<\/th>\n | Negative<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n | ||
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| \u98df\u3079\u305f<\/span>\u3070\u304b\u308a\uff08\u3060\uff09<\/td>\n | Just ate<\/td>\n | \u98df\u3079\u305f<\/span>\u3070\u304b\u308a\u3058\u3083\u306a\u3044<\/td>\n | Didn’t just eat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n <\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Examples<\/h3>\n\nSorry, but I’m full having just eaten.\n<\/li>\n \nI just ran 10 kilometers and am really tired.\n<\/li>\n \nI got back home just now.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n Here are some examples of the abbreviated version.\n<\/p>\n
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