Grammar Info

N5 Lesson 2: 7/12

る-Verb (Negative)Will/Does/Do (not)

Structure

Examples:
​​食(た)べる + ない
​​見(み)る + ない
寝(ね)る + ない

Details

  • Part of Speech

    Verb

  • Word Type

    Auxiliary Verb

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About る-Verb (Negative)

The negative form of る-Verbs are conjugated based on the same set of rules used for other forms of る-Verb conjugation (removal of る, followed by the addition of something else). In the case of negation, the additional component will be ない (casual), or ません (polite).

While the common translation of ない and ません is simply 'not', they actually have several possible nuances. These nuances are 'don't' (usually not), 'won't' (intentionally not), or 'can't' (unintentionally not).

Both ない and ません are auxiliary verbs (ません is a conjugation of ます), meaning that they have their own set of conjugation rules.

Caution

The ない attached to make the negative form of adjectives is a different word, and therefore follows different conjugation rules. When attached to adjectives ない itself is an い-Adjective, and not an auxiliary verb.

Related

Examples

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    寿司(すし)を食(た)べない。
    寿司(すし)を食(た)べないです。
    寿司(すし)を食(た)べません。

    I don't eat sushi.

    テレビを見(み)ない。
    テレビを見(み)ないです。
    テレビを見(み)ません。

    I don't watch TV.

    お金(かね)を借(か)りない。
    お金(かね)を借(か)りないです。
    お金(かね)を借(か)りません。

    I will not borrow money.

    パンを食(た)べない 。
    パンを食(た)べないです。
    パンを食(た)べません。

    I don't eat bread.

    ホラー映画(えいが)は見(み)ない。
    ホラー映画(えいが)は見(み)ないです。
    ホラー映画(えいが)は見(み)ません。

    I don't watch horror movies.

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る-Verb (Negative) – Grammar Discussion

Most Recent Replies (30 in total)

  • Jake

    Jake

    negative verbs

    Structure

    • 食べる・食べない
    • 行く・行かない

    View on Bunpro

  • LilianC

    LilianC

    I think this lesson doesn’t give enough information. It has the two cases for making a negation, but it doesn’t say which kind of verbs apply for which case

  • mrnoone

    mrnoone

    Hey!

    You are right!
    It will be changed within 24 hours to something like this:

    https://bunpro.jp/grammar_points/41

  • mrnoone

    mrnoone

    Hey!
    We have changed it

  • LilianC

    LilianC

    Yup, much better, don’t have to refer to Tae Kim anymore if I make a mistake there

  • seanblue

    seanblue

    It does make it hard to read though.
    The line wrap is unfortunate, but maybe a blank line between each type of conjugation would help.

    Also, why does the た one have a double arrow but the ない one doesn’t?

  • mrnoone

    mrnoone

    I will change “/” into double arrows, I tried to save a bit of space, but it seems that the best way is to use two lines of text per verb anyway.

  • Pirastrino

    Pirastrino

    Hello, a slash “/” is missing between こない, きません and こなかった, きませんでした
    くる→こないきません →こなかったきませんでした

  • mrnoone

    mrnoone

    Has been fixed

    Thank you for feedback

  • kipufogogaz

    kipufogogaz

    Hello there! I don’t really know where to thank the developers for applying the extra info to Verb[ない] and すぎる, so I will go ahead and do it here: Thank you!

  • mrnoone

    mrnoone

    Hey and welcome on community forums

    No problem!

  • drmoore718

    drmoore718

    Is there no past tense for ある? What about なかった?

  • Pushindawood

    Pushindawood

    @drmoore718 Hey! I have updated the structure section to include polite and negative conjugations of ある. Cheers!

  • drmoore718

    drmoore718

    Thanks! This will be very helpful!

  • paberu

    paberu

    The correct answer for I didn’t eat pizza is:

    ピザをたべなかった

    Can someone help me understand why the following is wrong:

    ピザをたべじゃなかつた

    Is じゃなかつた for was not whereas なかつた is for did not?

  • Pep95

    Pep95

    じゃなかった is an exception and only applies to です. It simply means ‘was not’.
    For most other verbs the structure works as Verb[ない]－なかった.
    (Except for する, くる and ある of course)

  • pasi

    pasi

    Am I missing something or is " 車は もちません" (持つ) missing the non-polite form answer? It just says “present negative” so it doesn’t seem to expect the polite form. The answer list only has the polite form though.

    Not that I’m even sure I got the casual form right (it’s … um, もたない?).

  • pasi

    pasi

    Um, I’ll take that back. It shows it to me now. It didn’t before. Weird. Anyway, it’s listed correctly. My bad.

  • ReiLossefalme

    ReiLossefalme

    It looks like this concept is covered in chapter 8 of Genki I, but is not included on BunPro’s Genki I path. Is this an error or am I misunderstanding something take makes this different from Genki’s “negative short form of verbs” chart?

  • Daigo

    Daigo

    The context sentence
    早はやく「起おきない→**起おきないです**」。[起おきる]
    has not English translation.

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