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HOW THE LANGUAGE WORKS<br />
■ ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ / ‘And’<br />
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This kind of negative question (as in English) implies the<br />
speaker may be slightly surprised or incredulous or wants to<br />
confirm something that they are almost sure of. If a positive<br />
question were asked, with no prior assumptions, the answer<br />
would be ie.<br />
In the same way, when the question is a negative one, ie is<br />
used to deny the sentence whether the answer is affirmative<br />
or negative:<br />
soba o tabemasen deshita ka?<br />
[‘noodles’ + ob. part. + ‘eat did not’ + question part.]<br />
didn’t you eat the noodles? (implying you should have)<br />
ie, tabemashita<br />
[‘no, did eat’]<br />
yes, I did eat them<br />
‘And’<br />
There are different words for ‘and’ in Japanese. To is used<br />
with nouns and pronouns:<br />
shio to kosho Tokyo to Rondon<br />
salt and pepper Tokyo and London<br />
kohi to sato o kaimashita<br />
[‘coffee and sugar’ + ob. part. + ‘bought’]<br />
I bought coffee and sugar<br />
Soshite also means ‘and’; it is used with verbs, adjectives and<br />
adverbs:<br />
watashitachi wa onsen ni hairi soshite shokji o shimashta<br />
[‘we’ + sub. part. + ‘hot spring in go and meal did’]<br />
we had a bath in the hot spring and had a meal<br />
kare wa hayak, soshite utskushik, ji o kakimas<br />
[‘he’ + sub. part. + ‘fast and neatly characters’ + ob. part. + ‘writes’]<br />
he writes both fast and neatly<br />
Sorekara means ‘and then’: