Let’s learn Japanese with the song Pretender by Official髭男dism (Ofisharu Hige Dan Dizumu).

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Official Music Video

The learning focus on this page is the expressions below.

  • 答えは分からない
  • 君は綺麗だ

You can find them in the video. Go to 1:58 and 2:13.

せんせい
せんせい

Let’s have a look at the expressions more carefully. Scroll down please.

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答えは分からない

Meaning: I don’t know the answer.
  • 答え(こた・え/ko ta e)means ‘answer’.
  • は (wa) is a topic marking particle which doesn’t mean anything.
  • 分からない(わ・からない/wa ka ra na i)means ‘don’t know’.

分からない

  • 分からない consists of 分から + ない.
  • 分から is originally 分かる(わ・かる/wa ka ru)which means ‘understand’.
  • ない is a verb conjugation to make Plain Present Negative Form.
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君は綺麗だ

Meaning: You are beautiful.
  • 君(きみ/ki mi)means ‘you’.

君(きみ)

君 often indicates a girl friend in a song.

  • は (wa) is a topic marking particle which doesn’t mean anything.
  • 綺麗(きれい/ki re i)means ‘beautiful’.
  • だ (da) is a copula in Plain Form.

Japanese copula: だ (da) and です (de su)

  • Both mean ‘is, am or are’.
  • だ is Plain Form.
  • です is Polite Form.

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