Page 3 Previous page Today's lesson: Review Situation Dialogue Say It Out Loud Vocabulary Grammar Examples Exercise nihongo Japanese - go language ga object marker chotto a bit, little wakarimasu understand Affirmative (Yes, I understand) and negative (No, I do not understand) of verbs. Japanese verbs are formed by placing suffixes after a root form. Here we'll look at two suffixes that can make a verb affirmative or negative: [masu] and [-masen]. [Yes, I] understand Wakarimasu. [No, I] don't understand Wakarimasen. Do you remember how to make a sentence into a question? Yes, put [ka] on the end of a sentence. Do [you] understand ? Wakarimasuka? Like we saw before, some words are implied in Japanese but not spoken in a sentence. Here, the words for "yes," "no," "I," and "you" are not in the Japanese sentence, but they are understood by the listeners. When you make a sentence including the word wakarimasu (understand), an object marker, [ga], is often used. This marks the word that comes before it--in this case, "Japanese"--as the object of the verb "understand." go (language) country name + go = language + = Nihon + go = nihongo (Japan +language = Japanese)