"This hotel is small."
Translation:このホテルは小さいです。
June 10, 2017
13 Comments
How come in this sentence, when saying something is small, the "です" is required, but in the other examples where we were saying something was big, it was not needed?
June 10, 2017
"です" is formal. You'd use it for talking to someone you don't know or talking to someone who is superior to you. We don't have anything like it in english. You can write this sentence as "このホテルは小さい。" and it would translate the same.
June 10, 2017
no, a majority of the time you will be seen as rude if you dont use the polite form in japan
February 9, 2018
Your brain didn't have to register it is "kanji" when you read it quickly. It just registered it as a symbol you knew. You're learning. :)
December 30, 2017
