"このくつはふるくないです。"
Translation:These shoes are not old.
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975
These are not old shoes... I must be messing up the sentence context or something
It should be "these shoes are..." -- この is used with a noun, without one it would have been これ.
- 165
These shoes are old.
'このくつは古いです。'or 'このくつは古い。'
These shoes are not old.
'このくつは古くないです。' or 'このくつは古くない。'
'古い' is old. '古くない' is not old.
- 879
I was confused by this I forgot the word but this did not look right to me thanks
So is "kutsutachi" not necessary when talking about a pair of shoes? Is it always implied that "kutsu" means it's a pair of shoes?
Or with any other object. ~たち would only be used with proper nouns and pronouns.
- 165
Unfortunately, no, it doesn't.
You can say following : このくつはふるくありません。 (この靴は古くありません。)
http://www.coelang.tufs.ac.jp/mt/ja/gmod/contents/explanation/030.html
- 544
Wouldn't this be an acceptable English equivalent?
"This pair of shoes aren't old."
- 544
What about "This pair of shoes are not old?" Or would there be a specific way of saying this sentence?
You get the same general meaning across with your sentence BUT -and don't quote me on this-, but I feel that you are adding more words to the sentence with "pair of" which would be represented with a counter in the Japanese sentence.
