Tham khảo tài liệu 'japanese is possible - lesson 25', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Japanese is Possible! Week 25 Part 25 ● -ZU : without doing (intro) ● Example Sentences ● Useful Words ● Japanese Resource Links -ZU: without doing (intro) If you wanted to say "He didn't eat, but went right to the store." you wouldn't be able to right now. You need one more grammar item to be able to say it properly. As you can tell by the heading, that grammar item is -ZU. It roughly means "without doing". Very frequently, you will conjugate suru (to do) into this form. As suru is one of two irregular verbs, you will need to be told what suru turns into. (Being irregular, it doesn't follow the normal pattern) suru (to do) becomes sezu (without doing) benkyou sezu ni, sugu dekaketa. study without doing, right away went out. (He) went out right away, without studying. nanimo tabezu, mise e itchatta. nothing without eating, store (toward) up and went. Without eating anything, he went off to the store. You'll notice that sometimes the particle ni is added after the verb in -zu form. It doesn't change the meaning, but it's nice to know why it's there. In the first sentence, it's telling in what way he "went out right away". That's why the particle ni is used. Here are some examples: taberu - tabezu korosu - korosazu sorasu - sorasazu This form isn't among the most popular, but it's nice to know it. That's why we're only touching on it right now. If you hear someone say a word that ends in -zu, you'll at least know it's a verb form. You then remove the -zu and see if you can recognize the verb stem. Usually that isn't too difficult, if you know enough verbs. Example Sentences pikachu wo korosezu, uchi ni kaetta. pikachu (answers who) without killing, home (to) returned. Without killing Pikachu, he returned home. poppo wo koroshita ato de, waratta. poppo (answers who) killed after, (he) smiled. He smiled after he killed the Poppo. katapii wo mitsukeru mae ni, mise ni ikeba ii to omou. katapii (answers who) find before, store (to) if you go is good, I think. I think you
