Japanese Grammar – Plain Past Negative Verbs

Japanese Grammar – Plain Past Negative Form of Verbs – Review Notes

In today’s grammar lesson, we learned how to change verbs from Plain Present Negative to Plain Past Negative.

In these video review notes we will go over today’s Japanese grammar in greater detail and see a list of verbs!

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Today’s Japanese Grammar Lesson:

★　Today we will learn how to change verbs from plain negative present to plain negative past

★　We already learned in a previous lesson how to make the negative form of plain present verbs. If you missed that lesson, check it out here.

★　If you are just starting out and don’t know anything about Japanese verbs yet, we recommend you check out our “Introduction to Japanese Verb Types” lesson first.

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Changing Verbs to Past Negative form:

★　As we learned previously, Plain Present Negative verbs always end in ない (nai).

★　To change these verbs to Plain Past Negative, just take off the final い (i) and add かった (katta).

★　For this conjugation type, you don’t have to worry which type of verb (ru-verb, u-verb, or irregular verb) it is, because they are all the same.

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Example Conjugations of Verbs:

★　The present negative form of the verb 行く (いく – iku) – go / will go – is 行かない (いかない – ikanai) – Don’t go / Won’t go.

★　The past negative form is 行かなかった (いかなかった – ikanakatta) – Didn’t go.

★　The present negative form of the verb 食べる (たべる – taberu) – eat / will eat – is 食べない (たべない – tabenai) – Don’t eat / Won’t eat

★　The past negative form is 食べなかった (たべなかった – tabenakatta) – Didn’t eat.

★　The present negative form of the verb する (suru) – do / will do – is しない (shinai) – Don’t do / Won’t do.

★　The past negative form is しなかった (shinakatta) – Didn’t do.

★　The present negative form of the verb 来る (くる – kuru) – come / will come – is 来ない (こない – konai) – Don’t come / Won’t come.

★　The past negative form is 来なかった (こなかった – konakatta) – Didn’t come.

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Example 1:

今日は学校に行かなかった。

Kyou wa gakkou ni ikanakatta.

(I) didn’t go to school today.

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Example 2:

朝ご飯食べなかった。

Asagohan tabenakatta.

(I) didn’t eat breakfast.

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Example 3:

結局しなかった。

Kekkyoku shinakatta.

(I) didn’t do (it) after all.

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Example 4:

彼女は来なかった。

Kanojo wa konakatta.

She didn’t come.

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List of Verbs in Plain Past Negative Form:

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Some common う-verbs:

会わなかった　　awanakatta　　　　 didn’t meet

選ばなかった　　erabanakatta　　　 didn’t choose

入らなかった　　hairanakatta　　      didn’t enter

話さなかった　　hanasanakatta　      didn’t talk

払わなかった　　harawanakatta　　 didn’t pay

買わなかった　　kawanakatta　　　 didn’t buy

聞かなかった　　kikanakatta　　　   didn’t listen

守らなかった　　mamoranakatta　  didn’t protect

待たなかった　　matanakatta　　　 didn’t wait

泣かなかった　　nakanakatta　　 　didn’t cry

思わなかった　　omowanakatta　　didn’t think

使わなかった　　tsukawanakatta　  didn’t use

動かなかった　　ugokanakatta　　  didn’t move

歌わなかった　　utawanakatta　　  didn’t sing

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Some common る-verbs:

褒めなかった　　homenakatta　　　didn’t praise

入れなかった　　irenakatta　　　　  didn’t put in

考えなかった　　kangaenakatta　 　didn’t think

借りなかった　　karinakatta　　　   didn’t borrow

片付けなかった　katazukenakatta　 didn’t tidy up

数えなかった　　kazoenakatta　　　didn’t count

消えなかった　　kienakatta　　　didn’t disappear

答えなかった　　kotaenakatta　　　didn’t answer

見せなかった　　misenakatta　　　  didn’t show

捨てなかった　　sutenakatta　　didn’t throw away

助けなかった　　tasukenakatta　  didn’t save/help

足りなかった　　tarinakatta　　　　wasn’t enough

疲れなかった　　tsukarenakatta　　didn’t get tired

忘れなかった　　wasurenakatta　　 didn’t forget

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Learn More about Japanese Verbs:

Plain Present Form of Verbs

Plain Past Form of Verbs

Plain Present Negative Form of Verbs

Changing Plain Form to Masu-Form

Masu-Form and Masen-Form of Verbs

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