Grammar Study 03

みんあさんどうですか?

前のレッスンを復習しましょうか？ In the previous lesson we studied about the demonstratives made with ko~, so~, a~, do~ preffixes. We studied the ~re and ~no suffixes which are used to make the word a demonstrative pronoun (as これ） or a demonstrative adjective (as この). Today we will take a quickier look at four other demonstrative words.

Always remember: こ is for things near the speaker, そ for things near the listener, あ　for things far from both and ど to make questions (much the same as "which").

01)こう、そう、ああ、どう　ー　these are adverbs and mean "in this/that manner".
例えば：
こう
ブラジルは昔からこうなの。
ブラジルはむかしからこうなの。
Brazil has been like that since old times.

そう
私がここの生活に慣れるのに時間がかかりそうです。
わたしがここのせいかつになれるのにじかんがかかりそうです。
It seems (that-そう) it will take me a while to get used to daily life here. (This one was a little trick, but as you read some texts you will understand how そう is used).

ああ
彼はああやればよかったのに。
He should have done it that way.

どう - The simplest one in this batch *heheh*
具合はどうなんですか？
What about the health? (How is it?)

That will be it for today. These ones above are really important. I took these examples mainlly from tangorin.com so I highly encourage you to go there and look for some more interesting examples. Tangorin is a great website.

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また明日ね!
Gustavo.