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Question to Teacher: Can I use DESU instead of DESHITA to refer to a date in the past?
Course 3 Lesson 6: Old Friends (Mini Conversations)
Question to Teacher: Can I use DESU instead of DESHITA to refer to a date in the past?
Course 3 Lesson 6: Old Friends (Mini Conversations)
| jeff147 | Post Date: 2018-07-22 22:55:59 |  save to notebook | saved questions | |||
 member since 2018 Apr 21 Questions: 1 Comments: 1 | こんにちは！
I am having trouble figuring out when です and でした should be used when answering certain questions, like in Conversation 2: A: いつ けっこんしましたか。 (When did you get married?) B: きょねんの 三月です。 (Last March.) If the answer to the question is a date in the past, why is です (present/future tense) used rather than でした (past tense)? Is there a difference between that conversation and this one from Book 1, where でした is used? A: パーティーは いつ ですか。 (When is the party?) B: きのう でした。 (It was yesterday.) Thank you! | |||||
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| jeff147 | Post Date: 2018-07-22 23:08:56 | |||
member since 2018 Apr 21 Questions: 1 Comments: 1 |
This is a repeat question - my apologies! Hello again, I found another question on the site with an explanation that I think answers this perfectly: http://yesjapan.com/YJ6/question/1338/do-i-use-present-or-past-tense-when-talking-about-specific-points-in-time. Can't believe I missed this the first time around - I'm so sorry to have bothered you with a repeat question! -- Jeff | |||
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| JFZ Teacher (Kanako) | Post Date: 2018-07-24 00:16:42 | ||
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I am glad you have found the answer you needed :) Keep up the good work! | ||
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| hiijii | Post Date: 2018-08-02 16:18:42 | |||
 member since 2013 Sep 30 Questions: 0 Comments: 1 | it is same as the independence day of the u.s. "is" fourth of july, 1776 and it "was" fourth of july, 1776 when the u.s. independ.... | |||
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