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Languages Study | Languages of the East | Japanese III |
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| Grammar II - 21.04 | Grammar L3 - 001 | Menu - Grammar |
| Adjective + する | |
| We learned in Lesson 10 how to say "become," as in
samuku
naru (become cold/colder) and joozu-ni naru
(become good/better at doing X). Here we learn to use adjectives together with the irregular verb suru, which in combination with adjectives means "to make." |
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| To make something "adjective". | |
| 冷たい -> 冷たくする | To make some thing cold or colder. |
| tsumetai - tsumetaku suru | |
| 簡単な -> 簡単にする | To make something simple or simpler. |
| kantan - kantan-ni suru | |
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| この間の試験は難しすぎたので、 次の試験は易しくして下さい. |
Please make the next exam easier, because the last one was too difficult. |
| kono aida-no shiken-wa muzukashi-sugita no-de, tsugino shiken-wa yasashiku-shite kudasai. |
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| irregular adjective | |
| いい -> よく | good - better/well/often |
| ii - yoku | |
| みんなで世界をよくしましょう. | Let's join our forces and make the world a better place. |
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minna-de, sekai-o yoku-shimashoo. |
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| 部屋をきれいにしました. | I made the room clean. |
| heya-o kirei-ni shimashita. | |
| 髪をボブ・マーリーみたいにしたいです. | I want to make my hair like Bob Marley's. |
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kami-o bobu maarii mitai-ni shitai desu. |
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| Note also the following idiomatic use of this pattern: | |
| 静かにする |
make it quiet -> keep quiet |
| shizuka-ni suru | |
| 静かにして下さい. | Please be quiet! |
| shizuka-ni shite kudasai! |