Negative and past

It's very simple to convert an affirmative sentence to negative and past forms. I will first teach you the negative form.

Take this sentence: あれはがっこう, that means "that is a school". We can say that "that isn't a school" by attaching じやない (most used in speech) or ではない (most used in writing) at the end of the sentence. So it will become:

- あれはがっこうじやない
- あれはがっこうではない

Note: remember that we can attach です at the end of the sentences showed above, in order to make them sound polite. But there's another way to make the negative sentence sound even more polite than attaching です at the end of it. It is by say:

- じやありません
- ではありません

So, that's it. These are the ways to pass a sentence to the negative form (there are another forms, but they are rarely used. You can find them in a quick research).

Now, I'll talk about the past forms. In my previous post, I talked about です and だ. So, we can put the sentence in the past form this way:

- です turns でした
- だ turns だった

We can also put the sentence written in a negative form in a past form too! It is made this way:

If the sentence ends with ありません, then just add でした at the end of it. If the sentence ends with ない, then replace い with かった.

See? It's not that hard. In a couple of days, all of this will simply enter in your brain and you will be able to build some simple sentences in negative and past forms. See you!