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PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2006 10:38 am


What whould Desu mean? is it am, are or what?
PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:32 am


Japanese does not have that sort of verb conjugation.

I guess *desu* could most easily be described as present-future simple tense of "be." Not to be confused with "exist" which is a different verb (aru, iru)

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PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2006 4:43 am


its sort of am/are/is. Thats what it would be in English. But it is not directaly translatable.
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