Japanese Grammar – I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. 🇯🇵

きみ の ことば が りかい（できる）____。

きみ の ことば が りかい（できる）____。
translated: I don't understand what you're trying to say.
answer: できなかった

Explanations:

1. Negative Form of Potential Verb:
– The verb できる (dekiru) means "to be able to do" or "to understand (in this context)." To form the negative past tense of this verb, we need to conjugate it appropriately.
– The negative form in the present tense of できる is できない (dekinai), which means "cannot do" or "cannot understand."
– To express that something was not understood in the past, we use the past negative form できなかった (dekinakatta), which translates to "could not do" or "could not understand."

2. Sentence Structure:
– The original Japanese sentence is: きみ の ことば が りかい（できる）____ (kimi no kotoba ga rikai [dekiru] ____).
– きみ (kimi) means "you" or "your."
– の (no) is a possessive particle that links きみ (kimi) to ことば (kotoba), meaning "words" or "what you're saying."
– ことば (kotoba) means "words" or "language."
– が (ga) is the particle indicating the subject of the sentence.
– りかい (rikai) means "understanding" or "comprehension."
– So, きみ の ことば が りかい（できる）____ translates literally to "Your words are understood ____."

3. Correcting the Translation:
– To correctly express "I don't understand what you're trying to say" in Japanese using the given structure, it must be placed in the negative past tense form.
– Filling it in with the past negative form: きみ の ことば が りかいできなかった (kimi no kotoba ga rikai dekinakatta).

Romanized Characters:
– Kimi no kotoba ga rikai dekinakatta.

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