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"あさってべんきょうします。"
Translation:I will study the day after tomorrow.
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Decided to see if "overmorrow" was accepted. Was disappointed. Such a useful word to have in a language :P
Have never heard the word "overmorrow" and I'm a native speaker of English and an English teacher.
Archaic word but still in-use and valid. You can see its Germanic roots by studying Germanic languages like Swedish or Danish, both of which have it as a very common word. I don't know about Germanic languages outside of Scandinavia, but I would imagine it's the same for German or Dutch.
Dane here, can confirm that overmorrow is very widely used in our language. :)
Overmorrow was a word word phased out of English years ago with a few occurrences here and there. ereyesterday also happens to be a word for the day before yesterday.
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It's considered obsolete by Wiktionary. And yet it's in the urban dictionary. So it's coming back, I guess?
Why is あさって not followed by は, like it was in previous examples? Just a matter of emphasis, I take it?
Yep, は after a relative time reference like あさって just emphasizes it as the topic.
Could someone perhaps explain to me what the difference is between ました,します and しますた? Youre help is greatly appriciated.
~ました is a suffix that you attach to the end of a verb to make it past tense. So in the case of します (To do) しました is its past tense form so its more like "(it) is done).
There is also しません (did not do) and しませんでした (did not do), and all verbs have these forms as far as i know.
We have one in English: "Overmorrow." It's archaic and not used much, but you still see it quite often in other Germanic languages.
It's strange that it's not used. In Chinese we even have the day after the day after tomorrow (+3 days) and the day before the day before yesterday (-3 days).
Nice try @Pikachu025! Playing around with words like that is a great way to learn!
However, Japanese already has the words you're looking for; they aren't commonly used, but here you go:
- "two days after tomorrow" = 明明後日, more commonly written as しあさって
- "two days before yesterday" = 一昨昨日, which can be read (according to my dictionary) as さきおととい or いっさくさくじつ, with the latter feeling slightly more formal to me (not a native speaker).
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Awesome, thanks, JelisW! It's nice to see that "dai" : 大 is common to Chinese and Japanese, sharing the meaning of "Big". :P
As an extension, I think we can say that "dai asatte" ：「だい あさって」：「大 明後日」 can be "day after the day after tomorrow" and "dai ototoi"：「だい おととい」：「大 一昨日」 can be "day before the day before yesterday"!
Just my feeling, it makes sense logically, but maybe not by Japanese grammar. Someone please verify and tell me if you've ever heard this in Japanese conversations! :P
I'm not a native english speaker, but even then I thought, who on earth uses the complete:"the day after tomorrow"? couldn't it accept just "after tomorrow"?
Native English speakers do not consider those equivalent. "The day after tomorrow" is in fact a phrase in common use (for instance, it's the name of a movie), and it refers to a specific day. "After tomorrow" means ongoingly but starting the day after tomorrow.
Is the "the" in "the day after tomorrow" really necessary?
" I will study day after tomorrow" sounds ok to me
I'd say so, yes. I've never seen "day after tomorrow" used without the preceding "the".
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I wondered the same too, but it turns out that grammatically it is wrong when you don't put the article "the"...
It strikes me that there's no particle in this sentence. Any idea why?
Would it be the same if I said: 明後日は勉強します and 明後日勉強します?
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You don't need a particle to mark words like today, yesterday, tomorrow, etc. You can include one to emphasize the day you're talking about, but it's optional.
Yes, those two you wrote are the same. Just the first has a slight bit more emphasis on the 明後日.
Sorry to say, but you're wrong. します is the Japanese verb meaning "to do" (usually. It's a very versatile verb in Japanese and actually has a number of different meanings, but all stem from the basic idea of "doing things", not "being".)
Simple present tense verbs in Japanese (i.e. ones that end in ます) can all be used for general statements, habitual actions, or actions that occur in the future.
Having trouble deciding when to use "を”. べんきょうします。しごとをします。Is the "”を”optional or is there a reason it should not be after べんきょう？
As far as I'm aware, no, there isn't; the preferred pronunciation is あさって.
I know that 明日 has a common alternative pronunciation (あす), which is slightly more formal, but again, みょうにち is very uncommon.
Thing is, in the list of most commonly used words, the みょうごにち reading is in the top 2000-3000. Whereas the あさって reading is in the top 4000-5000.
As for 明日 - it looks like みょうにち is a very distant third (behind あした and あす) in the top 7000-8000.
Interesting; I was personally going from my approximately 5 years of near native level Japanese experience where I've never heard a native speaker say みょうごにち or みょうにち, but I can accept that my experience is incomplete.
Do you have links? I tried looking for "the list of most commonly used Japanese words", and I found several, but none that corroborate your findings. A quick Google search seldom gave lists that went over 100, let alone lists over 1000 words long.
I searched through the only ones I could find that were long enough: this and this wikipedia list. I couldn't find 明後日 or any of its pronunciations in the top 10,000 (or the top 20,000 either, curiously). 明日 appears at 5173 and 3447, respectively, and あした and あす only appear on the second list (at 8197 and 10,418, respectively), but there's no みょうにち.
So, I'm curious where you got your numbers from.
I'm more just going off this other app I'm using called 'Kanji Tree' - if I knew where those lists were sourced I would've been a lot more specific than 2001-3000. I think it's supposed to be from an official list of some sort.
All I could find from my googling was 1. a public FTP ( http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html#oth_fil ) 2. a site called kotobank (not sure if it's any good) 3. a JLPT list on wikipedia that lists あさって as kana on N5 and 明後日 as みょうごにち on N3
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@V2Blast commented:
は after a relative tine reference like あさって just emphasizes it as the topic.
@v49mha2k commented:
You don't need a particle to mark works like today, yesterday, tomorrow, etc. You can include on to emphasize the day you're talking about, but it's optional.
Yep, because this sentence very specifically means you'll study ON the day after tomorrow. "I'll study after tomorrow" carries a more general "I'll study at some point after tomorrow, no fixed start or end point, just not tomorrow". Also, you need something to indicate the "after". This one I'm not sure about, but あしたのあと might work.
I said I will study after tomorrow and got it wrong even though it still means the same.
It doesn't mean the same thing. "After tomorrow" could mean next week, it could mean next year or any time further in the future than "tomorrow".
あさって means specifically the day that comes immediately after tomorrow or two days from today.
