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The store was closed two months ago and reopened with the new name one month ago. I haven’t been there since the closure. Today, I visited the store. Actually, it didn’t seem to be changed much. But I found that the corner of vegetables produced by nearby farmers was disappeared. Before closing, I asked one employee at cashier if she would work even after the change of management. She said yes, she would continue to work in the new store although she needed to learn a lot of things. But today, I couldn’t see any single face whom I knew well in the old store. It seemed like the operation of the store was rationalized and optimized, but for me, it is just desolated. I don’t think I will go there for buying daily food.
This is what I got yesterday.
And this is what I got today.
There are still some hanging on the tree. But I think now I have harvested more than a half of them. So far, I just use alcohol to eliminate bitterness. Though I want to apply the drying method, the remaining persimmons are not so many.
Last time we had learned a sentence construction to express a prediction that an incident is about to happen right in the next moment. Since that sentence is to say something is happening, a verb is used. And it was in the form of “Masu-form without ‘masu’”. In today’s sentence construction, not verbs but I- and Na-adjectives are used to express your impression. It is an impression in most of the time obtained from the appearance of what you are talking about. So, it is not a definitive statement, but a kind of a speculation. For example, if you say a definitive statement, it would be like;
1. Ano Jisho wa Iidesu. (That dictionary is good.)
But when you are not one-hundred percent sure, but you think the dictionary seems to be a good one;
2. Ano Jisho wa Yosa soudesu. (That dictionary seems to be good.)
Actually, the sentence 2 is a special one. As the title of this post reads, it would have been “[Stem of I-adjective]+ sou desu.”. But the I-adjective “Ii (good)” turns to be “Yosa soudesu” in today’s sentence construction. We have already learned the special conjugation of the I-adjective “Ii”;
– (WRONG) Ikunai => (RIGHT) Yokunai
– (WRONG) Ikatta => (RIGHT) Yokatta
– (WRONG) Ikereba => (RIGHT) Yokereba
So “I” of “Ii”turns to be “Yo” in several conjugation patterns. But “Yo soudesu” is still not good. It must be “Yosa soudesu”. Likewise, when you use a negative form of an I-adjective for a sentence of “-soudesu.”,
3. Sono Ryouri wa Oishikunasa soudesu. (That food doesn’t look so good.)
The negative form of the I-adjective “Oishii(tasty)” is “Oishikunai”. But “Oishikuna soudesu” isn’t good, it must be “Oishikunasa soudesu.”
<Some other example sentences need to be added, for example a sentence using a Na-adjective>
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This post was written with reference to the exercise A2 of Section43 in “Minna no Nihongo (2nd Edition)” published by “3A Corporation”
But the machine was on the area where harvesting was already done.
Since people use food delivery service these days, I guess most of the restaurants have already gone out of business.
They are almost a kind of weeds in my garden, but “Shiso” is growing many places. They are now having seeds.
And people around here like marinated shiso seeds with soy sauce very much. I decided making it this time. I gathered seeds from green and purple Shiso, and got the amount of one bowl of metal colander.
I removed seeds from the stem by my finger, one by one.
I got 132 grams of seeds. Of course, the weight of container is deducted.
I put salt on them. I tried putting salt of 10 percent of Seed’s weight.
Next day, I washed the seeds and marinated with soy sauce.
Putting them on top of Rice, and I ate it. I felt it was like a taste of autumn season.
This year too, I have got some persimmon fruits on the tree of a bitter persimmon “Koyo”.
I poured strong alcohol onto a small dish. And put the upper part of persimmon into it about ten seconds.
Then I put three persimmons into a plastic bag. I hope I will be able to eat them in several days. The strong alcohol I used was made from Gāoliang (高粱). I guess its smell will remain until I eat those persimmons.
Oh, by the way, now it’s the time for me to work a lot on my garden before the winter comes. So probably I will not be able to write a post of “Japanese Learning” for a while.
