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"この本は長いです。"
Translation:This book is long.
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Silly contribution: If you have trouble remembering which is long and are fond of mythology or tabletop gaming, just think naga = long. Because snakes.
I never put the two together, but I looked it up and learned that nāgini is Sanskrit for "female naga".
And the kanji looks like a guy holding a banner for another snake cult. It helps me haha
Does "long" in 長い mean exclusive long as in this case or also physically long as in a long line. Could you use it for a long train ride as well or would there be a time specific one?
長い also means "long" when it comes to the length of objects, time, and distances.
I have the same question you do and i didn't find an answer...
does
長い本
mean that it takes a long time to read, or only that it's physically long and not wide?
To memorize the character for "long" well; it looks like a man facing left with long hair.
Can this mean long content-wise? Like saying it has a lot of pages, besides than just long physically?
sorry for posting multiple times, I wanted to help both people
It can mean both, though one could assume a long book to be long content-wise.
Because the Japanese が-set sounds a bit like "nga", though it's represented by "ga" in romaji because that pronunciation is somewhat closer.
Nonetheless, the "nga" is still present.
この 本 (ほん) は 長 (なが) いです It can mean both that the book is physically long, as well as it is commonly used to say that the book takes a long time to read. (I confirmed with a native speaker.)
So, I wrote this answer earlier on a different question, without the "desu" and it was accepted. How necessary is the "desu" here?
です = polite version of だ = to be
長い(ながい) = long, works like a verb in Japanese ("to be long")
Since ながい already states something is long, you don't need it at all, grammar-wise, but it's considered very polite to add the です in any case!
With these kind of polite sentences, only conjugate the necessary part, not the added です! (e.g. 「この本は長かったです。」 = "This book was long." / 「この本は長かったでした。」 = バカ外人(=goofy foreigner) stuff
partially true, the problem is です cannot always be replaced with だ、for example in questions or with い adjectives
For example, おいしいです, in informal you would use おいしい、never おいしいだ
Correct me if im wrong, im still a ビギナー
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No, if you were to have a "na" at the end of a sentence, it would be "da". "Na" is just the connective form of "da": what you would say if you were putting another noun after it. If you were to say that the flower was pretty, you would say, "Hana ga kirei da." But if you were to put the word for "flower" at the end, you would change the "da" to "na": "the pretty flower" would be "kirei na hana".
And in any case, you only do that for so-called "na" adjectives, and "nagai" is not one of those.
So-called "i" adjectives have the "da" or "desu" built into them, so to speak, so you don't need to put "da" or "desu" after them, grammatically speaking: "Kono hon wa nagai," would be a complete sentence without anything after the "nagai".
You can say "desu" after it to make it more formal, but grammatically, you don't need to.
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ2EhSPLQsk
Japanese Adjectives i and na - secrets they never tell you! Four facts that make adjectives easy
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Literally, as I understand it, it means "to be equal to, to be the same as". It's translated with "to be", because in the end the meaning is the same, but it's not actually the verb "to be". It's more like the = sign.
私は学生です -> "myself = student" -> Regarding myself, I'm equal to a student, I'm exactly the same as a student. Translated: I'm a student.
It is not necessary for understanding, however desu is a polite way to end a sentence, and unless you are talking to family or close friends it is always better to include desu than to exclude it.
If I remember correctly, its a matter of who you're talking to on what you can drop.
You're absolutely right!
When you need to be very polite to someone, say talking to your boss or school director for example, definitely add the extra です!
On the other hand, in casual conversations, such as when you're talking among friends, you don't even need to put necessary です's! (e.g. 「あ、、、バカ外人は！」 = "Ah... Goofy foreigner", incorrect Japanese, though it's understood to be "Ah... I'm such a goofy foreigner" after making your so manieth grammar blunder totally not out of experience nah... )
Also, kudos for Rem, Emilia best girl though.
sorry for posting multiple times, I wanted to help both people
It can mean both, though one could assume a long book to be long in its content.
