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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