= I learned that she had a feeling for me for the first time when I received a LINE message from her. = Line no messeeji wo moratte hajimete kanojo ga jibun no koto wo sukida to shittan dayo. = When did you find out those two were seeing each other?Įx. = Ano futari ga tsukiatte iru tte itsu shitta no? = I read (found out about) it on Yahoo News. = Where did you hear about that incident? = Doko de sono jiken no koto wo shirimashita ka? (1) learned / found out / heard some information / news, to realized something (at a certain time) You use the negative form when you are fed up with someone showing your frustration. (2) Conversational usage of 知らない ( = shiranai) / 知りません( = shirimasen) = I’ve been always telling my child not to follow someone that they don’t know ( = a strange r) = Kodomo niwa shiranai hito ni tsuite itte wa ikenai to itsumo itte iru. = I got a phone call from a stranger (someone I don’t know). = Shiranai hito kara denwa ga kakatte kita. There are still many words that I don’t know. = ieie, mada shiranai kotoba ga ippai arimasu. = My friends don’t know yet that I have a boyfriend. = Watashi ni kare ga iru koto wo tomodachi wa mada shiranai. = He doesn’t know anything about Japanese history. = Kare wa, nihon no rekishi ni tsuite nani mo shiranai. * 知らないです ( = shiranai desu) polite but more conversational Unlike the affirmative form, you don’t use ている ( = teiru) form when you express the current state of not knowing something. (1) don’t know/ doesn’t know (the current state of not knowing something or not having knowledge about something) = Kare no koto wo mukashi kara yoku shitte imasu.

= Do you know the song called “Dog Policeman”? = “Inu no omawari-san” toiu uta wo shitte imasu ka? (I know this brand.) I have a pair of shoes of that brand. These expressions can help clear up any situation.Īnd if you are talking about something, you say: If the listener gets confused, you can say, for example, When you say: someone + を知っている (= someone wo shitte iru)ġ) you met the person and know that personĢ) you heard about that person, you know who that person is Most “proper” Japanese textbooks cover this form, but you hear this form a lot in daily conversation so we will study it.ġ) The current state of knowing something/someone/to have knowledge about ~ . Note: In casual speech, you drop い ( = i). * 知ってます( = shitte masu) polite but conversational I already opened it! (^_−)−☆īut when you describe the state of knowing something/someone, you don’t use these forms. Making this lesson is like opening a Pandora’s box, but it’s too late. And choosing the tense is sometimes a bit tricky.

They are both often simply translated as “to know” but there are subtle differences. Today we are going to learn the differences between the verb 知る ( = shiru) and the verb わかる ( = wakaru). We are today’s guest teachers, Snowy and Zoey !

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