Tuesday, September 05, 2006

 

JLPT3: ずに


日本語： [verb (base 1)] ずに
English: without doing...

Another nice and easy one today. Back back in March I looked at a handy conjugation we learnt in class that allowed us to say that something is done without doing something else. At the time we used the ないで conjugation, but trawling through the comments for that post show that there is another option that means the same thing: ずに. Well, it appears that ないで is not part of the JLPT specification and ずに is, so guess which one I'm going to remember from now on.

例文

English: I went to bed without watching the end of film on TV.
Jenglish: [TV film][end][watching][without][I][went to bed]
日本語： テレビの映画を最後まで見ずに寝ました。

English: I read a newspaper without using a dictionary.
Jenglish: [dictionary][using][without][I][newspaper][read]
日本語： 辞書を使わずに新聞を読みました。

English: I went to Japan during the summer without dying.
Jenglish: [dying][without][summer][during][Japan][went]
日本語： 死なずに夏中日本に行きました。

またね。。。

# posted by Dave Hoggan @ 7:40 am
Comments:
A correction here to one of the example sentences.

Orinally I wrote:

English: I went to bed without watching the end of film on TV.
Jenglish: [on TV][end][film][watching][without][I][went to bed]
日本語： テレビで最後の映画を観なずに寝ました。

It looks as if the Japanese translation would say:

I went to bed without watching until the end of the TV film, so we get:

テレビの映画を最後まで見ずに寝ました。

I have changed the main blog entry to reflect this.
# posted by Blogger Dave Hoggan : 11:38 am
 
I went to Japan during the summer without dying.
死なずに夏中日本に行きました。

(^o^)hahaha!
The terrible heat and humidity kill me every summer!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 12:10 pm
 
freeasacat... And you're Japanese. I Scottish and we wear T-shirts in winter! 私には日本の梅雨は遅い拷問です。
# posted by Blogger Dave Hoggan : 7:09 pm
 
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