His father had to work in Japanese 🇯🇵

Sentence info.

– かれ (kare): "he" or "his"
– の (no): possessive particle, translating to "of" or " 's"
– ちち (chichi): "father"
– は (wa): topic marker, indicating the subject of the sentence
– はたらかなければ (hatarakanakereba): the negative conditional form of the verb はたらく (hataraku), meaning "to work"; translated as "if (one) does not work" or "have to work"
– なりません (narimasen): negative form of なる (naru), which means "to become." In this context, it translates as “must not,” forming a necessity or obligation.
– でした (dea): past tense form of です (desu), indicating the past tense.

Romanized Sentence:
Kare no chichi wa hatarakanakereba narimasen dea.

Tips to Remember:
1. Break down the sentence: Understand each component independently before putting it together.
2. Practice the conditional negative form of verbs since it’s commonly used to express obligation.
3. Remember the past tense marker でした (dea) to indicate that the obligation was in the past.

Alternate Ways to Say It:
1. かれ の おとうさん は しごと を しなければ なり ません でした (Kare no otousan wa shigoto o shinakereba narimasen dea).
– Here, replacing ちち (chichi) with おとうさん (otousan) gives a bit more polite term for "father,” and using しごと を する (shigoto o suru) is another way to say “to work.”

2. かれ の ちち は はたらく ひつよう が ありました (Kare no chichi wa hataraku hitsuyou ga arimaa).
– This sentence translates literally to "His father had a need to work," which implies that he had to work.

3. かれ の ちち は はたらかなければ いけません でした (Kare no chichi wa hatarakanakereba ikemasen dea).
– A similar structure using いけません (ikemasen) instead of なりません (narimasen), both meaning “must” or “have to.”

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