plain form と 思います
Put a plain-form statement before と思います to report an opinion or prediction.
I think it will rain tomorrow.
と おもいます
These notes follow the grammar progression in the supplied Kanrin / Minna no Nihongo material. Each rule is summarized in English and paired with a fresh Japanese example, reading support, and translation.
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Put a plain-form statement before と思います to report an opinion or prediction.
I think it will rain tomorrow.
Use と言います for direct or indirect quotation. The quoted content normally uses plain form.
The teacher said, “Please rest.”
Use でしょう with rising intonation to seek confirmation of something you expect the listener to know.
Hokkaido was cold, wasn’t it?
For an event, で marks the place where it is held; this differs from the existence location に.
There is a fireworks festival in Yokohama.
でも after a noun offers it as one possible suggestion rather than the only choice.
Shall we have coffee or something?
In conversation, the ない-form plus と is often shortened from a longer obligation pattern and means “must do.”
I have to go home now.
think
say
win
lose, be beaten
[a festival] be held, take place
be useful
move, work
quit or retire from [a company], stop, give up
pay attention, take care
study abroad
wasteful
inconvenient
awful, great (expresses astonishment or admiration)
true
lie
car, automobile
transport, traffic
[commodity] prices
[commodity] prices
news
anime (Japanese animated film)
comic book
design, artwork
dream
genius
game, match (~を します : play a game/match)
opinion
talk, speech, what one says, story (~を します : talk, tell a story)
earth
moon
recently, these days
probably, perhaps, maybe
surely, definitely
really
not so (used with negatives)
about ~, concerning ~
It's been a long time [since we last met].
How about drinking ~ or something?
of course
I have to get home now......
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Princess Kaguya (heroine of the old Japanese folk tale 'Taketori Monogatari')
Tenjin Festival (a festival in Osaka)
Mt. Yoshino (a mountain in Nara Prefecture)
kangaroo
Captain James Cook (1728-1779)
a fictitious company