This is a discussion topic for the updated N5 Lesson 5 reading passages. (May 2024)
off topic, its just that mayu is reaaaaaaally lazy isnt he.
it doesnt matter at all just just a pice of mind
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There is a sentence missing in the 4th text’s translation. The second sentence isn’t translated.
I just noticed that some passages have pretty informative notes! That’s awesome, but I feel like they are a bit hidden. Especially since they are not available for all passages. It would be great if their availability was more obvious, even if the default is to have them hidden.
In the translation given for the last passage under the topic ”両親の仕事についてはなしています”
’お皿洗いはしなかった’ is translated as ‘he won’t wash the dishes’, but isn’t ない conjugated into past form here? In the greater context of the sentence “he didn’t wash the dishes” doesn’t really make sense, so shouldn’t it be しない instead of しなかった？
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I wonder if in the last dialog, last sentence by Mayu has a correct translation?
Won’t it be more like - you’re going to the university tomorrow? Because of the ending particle ね, that would be rather a question, looking for info/confirmation, to which Kurumi answers - yes.
And to match the translation it should and with よ?
I think this sentence is fine. From context, Mayu decided to not be lazy tomorrow and actually go to class, and announces that.
I’m not sure how it relates to Bunpro’s N5 article on ね, only staff can answer that, but dictionaries list this meaning as:
https://jpdb.io/vocabulary/2029080/ね?lang=english#a
Particle
3. you know; you see; I must say; I should think
at sentence end; used to express one’s thoughts or feelings
３ 自分の考え・気持ちを主張する意を表す。
But reading this whole dialog, I think there’s an issue with a different sentence, sentence 3:
“couldn’t go” would be 行けなかった, but Mayu just says “I didn’t go”, fully admitting it was a conscious lazy choice.
Heya, any reason why 「を」is used instead of 「が」for the 「すき」part of「私の父がドライブを好きだから」?
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Since no one else has responded yet, I figured you might find this link of interest:
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Thank you!
So basically the answer is… maybe okay? Hmmm, I use ChatGPT to help with understanding some things at time. But I only use it as supplemented, meaning I try to verify it’s findings, hence I’m reading this and the link you posted. ChatGPT seems to think this is completely wrong, but that wouldn’t be the first time it didn’t have all the info it needed to actually have a sufficient answer. But the documents linked as well doesn’t exactly give me much confidence either. I suppose in some relative clause cases, it can be fine. Just… hmm… Wouldn’t it be better to err on the side of correctness? Unless for some reason using を sounds more natural?
My other hypothesis about this, is that it’s a contraction of ドライブをするのが好き
But still…