Did not start (polite) in Japanese 🇯🇵

はじめませんでした info.

Tips to remember the Japanese word:
– Think of "hajime" (始め) which means "to begin" or "to start".
– '-masen' (ません) is a common negative polite form in Japanese.
– '-dea' (でした) is the past tense ending for polite forms.

Explanations:
– "はじめませんでした" (hajimemasendea) is a negative past tense polite form of the verb "はじめる" (hajimeru), meaning "to begin" or "to start."
– This form indicates that something was not started in the past.

Other words that mean the same thing:
– やりませんでした (yarimasendea) – did not do
– 始まらなかった (hajimaranakatta) – did not begin (note the subject here is typically not a person but an event or thing)

Infinitive and different conjugations:
– Infinitive: はじめる (hajimeru) – to start

Conjugations:
– Present (affirmative): はじめます (hajimemasu) – to start (polite)
– Past (affirmative): はじめました (hajimemaa) – started (polite)
– Present (negative): はじめません (hajimemasen) – do not start (polite)
– Past (negative): はじめませんでした (hajimemasendea) – did not start (polite)
– Future (affirmative): はじめます (hajimemasu) – will start (polite)
– Future (negative): はじめません (hajimemasen) – will not start (polite)

Examples of sentences that use it:
– 彼は会議をはじめませんでした。
– Kare wa kaigi o hajimemasendea.
– He did not start the meeting.

– 昨日、宿題をはじめませんでした。
– Kinō, shukudai o hajimemasendea.
– I did not start the homework yesterday.

– 彼らはプロジェクトをはじめませんでした。
– Karera wa purojekuto o hajimemasendea.
– They did not start the project.

– 提案をはじめませんでしたので、遅れました。
– Teian o hajimemasendea node, okuremaa.
– Because I did not start the proposal, I was late.

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