"I got married in June."

Translation: 六月に結婚しました。

[deactivated user]

Why is に needed in this sentence while it isnt needed for 去年けっこんしました?

[testmoogle]

Why in English is the preposition "in" needed for "I got married in June" but not for "I got married in last year" ? ^^

[kurros]

I don't know, but maybe there is a fancy grammatical reason? Especially since it happens in both English and Japanese, makes me think there is some universal grammar magic behind it!

[gyJe7QcR]

The grammatical reason is, that に is optional for some or must never be used with most RELATIVE time words.

June is not relative to any other time. It marks a concrete point in time.

Tomorrow is a relative time word, marking a time that's relative to today.

[roy_destroy2]

Oh, I guess that makes sense

[arcferrari248]

PLAIN FORM: 「6月に結婚した．」
POLITE FORM: 「6月に結婚しました．」

[AbsentWork]

Why is に right but には is wrong?

[Edzsike]

I love these new "hard exercises".

[Nardokor]

Is using は after June incorrect?

[mik.santoro]

Why is it 六月に？

[knatt]

六 = 6; 月 = month; に = in. In the sixth month -> In June.

[Siroggak]

So what's that first "shi" is about? The first one is a conjugated past form of "masu", right? What about the one that preceds "mashi"?

[testmoogle]

Your post is extremely confusing the way it's currently worded. ^^;

けっこん is a noun meaning "marriage".

Some nouns can be used as verbs by adding the verb する as a suffix.

The past form of する is した. And for the ~ます version of する (which is します), the past form is しました (the past form of ~ます is ~ました).

• けっこん = "marriage" (noun)
• けっこんする = "marry" (verb, plain form, non-past)
• けっこんした = "married" (verb, plain form, past)
• けっこんします = "marry" (verb, polite ~ます form, non-past)
• けっこんしました = "married" (verb, polite ~ます form, past)

[saliast]

That makes an amazing amount of sense to me. Thank you!!

[saliast]

How can you tell which nouns will work like this and which won't? Is there a way.. Short of simply having to memorize them one by one?
Will this work in reverse as well with -koto added to certain verbs to change them into nouns?
Also... Is this suru the same as "to do"?

[MotYLi2]

I can't tell if it's an absolute rule because we were sort of talking about something else so we didn't get into the details but my Japanese teacher said the "noun+suru" trick works for most nouns that can be written with two kanji (yeah, i know, I'm terrible at kanji too...). She also said that if we use it on a noun that usually doesn't work that way, Japanese people would still understand what you're trying to say.
Hope it helps!