1. Educate Yourself Japanese - Japanese Grammar Lesson - Verb (Base II) +
Nagara - To do Whilst Verbing
This article's Japanese grammar building utilizes the Japanese
word 'nagara'
Verb (Base II) + nagara - to do while 'verb'ing.
With this particular grammar building, each previous tense and
current tense expressions are allowable. After studying the following
examples, plug inside your preferred Japanese verbs and, perform!
Plugging and enjoying within this way tends to make studying Japanese
fun!
Instance one. sara o arainagara, kuchibue o fuku. - Whilst performing
the dishes, I whistle.
Example two. enka o kikinagara, sake o nomu - While listening to an
enka drink sake.
Japanese Grammar Formulation Breakdown
Put verb in base II
a. The verb arau (v. to wash) in + direct object sara (n. dishes) is
sara o arau - to do the dishes.
b. arau in base II gets to be arai.
two. Fuse arai and nagara to make arainagara, or the phrase whilst
washing... plugged and played.
Past tense, non-polite (familiar), plain-form ending
Ex. one sara o arainagara kuchibue of fuita. I whistled whilst
performing the dishes.
Past tense, polite ending -
Example one. sara o arainagara, kuchibue of fukimashita. - While
performing the dishes, I whistled.
Past tense, non-polite (familiar), plain-form ending -
Instance two. enka o kikinagara, sake o nonda (While listening to
enka, I drank Sake)
Previous tense, polite ending -
Instance two. enka o kikinagara, sake o nomimashita.( Whilst listening
to enka, I drank Sake)
Past tense, non-polite (familiar), plain-form ending
Instance three. kuruma o unten shinagara, tomodachi to hanshi o shita
(While driving my car, I spoke with my friend)
Previous tense, polite ending -
Example 3. kuruma o unten shinagara, tomodachi to hanshi o shimashita
Ganbatte Ne!
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Makurasuki
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