急げ。
While in the the last lesson we learned how to give advice, this lesson introduces ways to make a direct instruction using しろ (”Do it”), the imperative form, and するな (“Don’t do it”) the prohibitive form.
It also shows more ways to convey messages using -と言う,
Morphology
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The imperative verb form
The imperative form of Japanese of verbs is constructed differently depending on whether the verb is a -ru, -u or irregular verb.
Structures
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帰れ。入るな。
Imperative form – usage When used by itself as a sentence ending the imperative form can be very direct and can seem very rude. However it can be used by itself in some situations:
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～と読む
Similarly to the way that ~と書く is used to describe how text is written, ～と読む can be used to describe how something is read.
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～と書いてあります。
Just as ~言う is used to show indirect speech, ~と書く is used to describe written text.
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～という意味です。
～という意味 is used to show what something means.
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~と言っていました
Used to convey what somebody has said
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～と伝えていただけませんか
This structure is used to politely ask somebody to convey a message.
Kanji
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Kanji 33
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