"This hotel is small."

Translation: このホテルは小さいです。

[Meep620393]

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?

[Islacorn]

"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.

[RamenDutchman]

So long story short: It's not required and we need to flag this?

[ImADorkIDo]

no, a majority of the time you will be seen as rude if you dont use the polite form in japan

[deactivated user]

Yes.

[somelauw]

Is it like saying?

"This hotel is small, sir"

[Judy504160]

ですis not necessary

[JohnPMChappell]

このホテルは小さいです。

[BarbaricWafflez]

No kanji this time?

[hollt693]

小 is. It just isn't as complicated as most kanji so it blends in.

[GoldCrono]

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. :)

[mrvolans]

小 is kanji tho

[Jasmit8]

Can we use "ga" partical instead of "ha" particle since ga particle is used when adjectives are there.....

[Dylan_Nicholson]

I'd think が should definitely be accepted, and would put more emphasis on "this hotel" (as compared to other ones), but it's not currently. I reported it.

[Dylan_Nicholson]

Surely 狭い should also be accepted?

[brownaise-sauce]

Why is it kono and not kore?

[Swisidniak]

Kono is an adjectival pre-noun is used to directly modify "hotel"
このホテル "this hotel"
It is like a contraction of これ the stand-alone pronoun "this" and の the possessive/grouping particle, so "the hotel of this (space)"