"きのうパソコンをかいました。"
Translation:I bought a PC yesterday.
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I guess not everyone is fortunate enough to find one in a pile of trash in an alley. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: Downvoted so soon! I guess not everyone gets the reference either. This is what I get for trying to be funny, for once.
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Is there any reason why there isn't a "wa" between yesterday and computer? In most other examples the time seems to have a particle after it.
More context: particles aren't mandatory for words that describe relative moments of time, such us 今日, 昨日, 朝, etc. If the sentence used e.g., a specific day, like 火曜日, it would need to have a particle (probably に, although you could also use は for a different emphasis) to be correct.
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I don't think it's a matter of politeness. You'd use は a) if yesterday had been raised as a topic of conversation or b) if you wanted to emphasize the contrast between yesterday and other days.
'I bought a personal computer yesterday'... And I was marked wrong for 'yesterday I bought a personal computer'.
What about laptop (instead of PC)? You would also refer to one as パソコン right?
I must say "pasokon" had me baffled, I guess it's a shortening of "personal computer"? Is that the commonly used term for a computer or laptop of any kind?
Is "いました" suppose to garner past tense here? The "ka" is very easy to miss and ends up to having " There were" as a translation.
Yes, -ました is the polite past tense ending and it regularly turns the う of 買う (かう) into an い (as do the other polite endings: -ます, -ません and -ましょう).
Isn't ‘I have bought a PC yesterday' better in English. I know that in Japanese this construction is in Past Indefenite, but Perfect tense sounds better for me. English is not my native language, though.
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Perfect tense can't be used when the action occurred at a specified point in time.
