Lesson 16: 昨日、なにを しましたか

N5 · Lesson 16 · 24 min — Talk about the first day of your trip in the past tense: I ate, I didn't see, that day was…

No new verb system to learn here! You already know ます. Just change the ending, and you can talk about things that already happened. Let's start with the 4-panel comic!

After this lesson, you can:

Day one: what happened?

Morning of day two of the field trip. Neko-sensei asks Rin what he did yesterday... (日ひ = day; ごはん = meal; 東京とうきょうタワー = Tokyo Tower)

Did it → ました, didn't → ませんでした, it was… → でした. Rin's travel diary: day one is all 「食たべました」.

Words for talking about yesterday

Grammar 1 / 3: 〜ました

Change ます to ました, and it means "did" (past)

Grammar 2 / 3: 〜ませんでした

Add でした after ません, and it means "didn't (do)"

Grammar 3 / 3: 〜でした

Change です to でした = "was…"; for "wasn't", say じゃありませんでした