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Well, the original wording was "hanasei masen" and I assumed the OP wouldn't know about the potential form at their current level. Potential form when talking a
by Grue3 7y ago
Well, the original wording was "hanasei masen" and I assumed the OP wouldn't know about the potential form at their current level. Potential form when talking about knowing the language doesn't sound right to me, but I can find example sentences using both potential and normal form. In natural language I think normal form would be used. Potential form of "wakaru" is "wakareru" which happens to be a verb with a completely different meaning "to diverge/separate/divide", so I don't think anyone uses it and it makes little sense anyway.
- glandium 7y agoWakaru doesn't have a potential form because its meaning includes potential. So wakareru is unambigously "separate/split/divide" Now, I never realized... the interesting thing is both wakaru and wakareru use the same kanji: 分かる 分かれる (although there is also 解る or 判る for wakaru)
- lisper 7y ago> I assumed the OP wouldn't know about the potential form at their current level. You assumed correctly :-) I thought that adding a "sen" suffix to any verb was the only way to negate it. Wakarimas = I understand. Wakarimasen = I don't understand. (Yes, I read Shogun :-) Japanese is apparently much more subtle than I realized.