Ah, Suzuki-san, konnichiwa. Ah, inu. Watashi wa inu ga kirai desu.
Kirai? How dare you say that in front of Joy-chan. Eh?
Ah, gomen nasai. Yoshi, yoshi, Joy-chan. I was just being honest. Midori-san wa natto ga suki desu ka?
Kirai desu. ああ、好きじゃありませんか? 嫌い and 好きじゃありません don't mean the same? Well, 嫌い sounds a bit too strong, just like saying I hate it.
Hate? 大変だ! ジョイちゃん、さっきはごめんなさい。 私はジョイちゃんが嫌いじゃありません。
ただ… あまり好きじゃありません。 Oh dear! Grammar points.
私はが好きです。 I like. 私は犬が好きです。
I like dogs. 私、犬、好き。 The word 好き is actually the adjective, unlike the English verb like. This is the sentence ending that makes the sentence polite.
Then what about these words わ and が? are the Japanese particles. The particle は is attached to the topic of the sentence. Let's just take a look at this hiragana character.
This character is usually pronounced as は, just like how we say はい, yes. But when it's used as a particle attached to the topic of the sentence, we only pronounce it as は. Regarding the particle が, there are a few different functions, but today we'll only take a look at the function in the this sentence. わたしは犬が好きです。
The particle が is attached to the word 犬 dog, which is the object of like. Now it's your turn. Could you make a sentence I like comic books in Japanese?
私は漫画が好きです。 Manga is comic book. If you want to say, I love comic books, you can just replace the word 好き with 大好き。 私は漫画が大好きです。
Let's make a question sentence 私は犬が好きです Could you turn this sentence into a question? 犬が好きですか? Do you like dogs? To make a question, you can just add か at the end of the sentence of the sentence.
If the answer is yes, you can say はい、好きです。 Yes, I like. If the answer is no, you can say いいえ or いいえ、好きじゃありません。 No, I don't like. じゃありません is the negative form of this.
Do you remember lesson 1? いいえ、上田先生じゃありません。 This is the same as how we made a negative sentence I am not in lesson 1. Finally, let's learn ways for expressing dislikes.
好きじゃありません that we just talked about means I don't like it. If you want to make the sentence a bit softer, you can add あまり not very. あまり好きじゃありません.
I don't really like it. Another moderate way to express dislike is by using 苦手です. I'm not really good at it. The word 苦手 has two meanings, not very. good and not one's favorite.
For example, 私は犬が苦手です。 I'm not good with dogs. 私は納豆が苦手です。 I'm not a fan of natto. Lastly, to express strong dislike, we use 嫌いです。
I dislike or hate it. 嫌い is the opposite word of 好き, like, but it's a strong word, so we don't often use it. Quickly before you go, if you want to know, how to make a sentence like I am or I am not in Japanese, please check out the lesson 1. Thank you for watching until the end. See you again in the next lesson. ではまた。