Lesson10:~んです ~ndesu /Explaination form

Lesson10:~んです ~ndesu /Explaination form



Audio

Dialog

男:明日から中国に行くんです。
女:仕事ですか?
男:いいえ、遊びに行くんです。
女:いいですね。一人でですか?
男:はい。でも中国に私の恋人がいるんです。
女:なるほど。

M:Ashita kara chuugoku ni ikun desu.
F:Shigoto desu ka?
M:Iie,asobi ni ikundesu.
F:Iidesu ne.Hitoiri de desu ka?
M:Hai.Demo chuugoku ni watashi no koibito ga irundesu.
F:Naruhodo.

M:I’m going to China from tomorrow.
F:For work?
M:No. I will go for fun.
F:That’s good. Are you by yourself?
M:Yes,but I have my girlfriend in China.
F: I see.

Grammar explaination

You can use ~んです when you want to say ” the mode of explaining things.”

■The patterns is below:

Verb short form + ndesu

the mode of explaining things.

It accents the sentence’s content or softens a request or an order. It may be also said as “~のです”. With -na adjectives and nouns it becomes “~なのです”.

Example sentences

明日日本に行くんです。Ashita nihon ni iku ndesu
I will go to Japan ( so I bought new suits case etc)

電車が遅れたんです。Densha ga okureta ndesu
Train delayed ( so I came here late)

テニスはするんですか? Tennis wa surun desu ka?
Do you play tennis? (at all, not right now)

Vocabularies

仕事 shigoto(work)

遊びに行く asobi ni iku(to hang out)

恋人 koibito(lover)

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