What is Imasu?
To Be
Imasu Definition
| Imasu Definition 2008/1/13 12:01 | |
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| Imasu means “To Be” or “Exist” and is used to refer to people and animals, which are obviously alive. The use of Arimasu is used to refer to things that are not alive such as books, rocks or dolls. | |
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How do I use Arimasu and Imasu?
arimasu and imasu are 2 Japanese verbs used to express existence of thing and people/animal respectively. あります (arimasu) is used when what is present does not move by itself, like thing or plant. On the other hand います (imasu) is used when what is present moves by himself/itself, like people or animal.
What does ‘arimasu’ mean in Japanese?
arimasu and imasu are 2 Japanese verbs used to express existence of thing and people/animal respectively. あります (arimasu) is used when what is present does not move by itself, like thing or plant. On the other hand います (imasu) is used when what is present moves by himself/itself, like people or animal.
What does ‘Watashi wa Anata o aishiteimasu’ mean?
Watashi means “I” and wa is a relational, something you will need to study on. Anata o = object being acted on. Anata = you, and o is another relational. It shows that the word previously is being affected. aishite imasu = the very, and action. Aishite is loving, and imasu means to exist. Ai is love, shite is do.
What does Imasu mean?
im confused. wa is a particle, indicating who is doing the action, while the imasu is the formal present tense form of iru (rough translation in this sense would be “to be happening”), so the action is currently going on.
What does de arimasu mean?
The phrase she uses, ~de arimasu (〜であります）is the more formal version of ~desu (~です), a verb meaning “to be”. ~です is more common use nowadays, where as the former is hardly ever used in today’s world, except maybe in some extremely formal circumstances.
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