N5
です: Simple Statements
Learn how です ends a polite statement and ties short beginner sentences together.
Recognize です as the polite sentence ending in basic statements.Read X is Y patterns without reordering too early.Build confidence with short noun sentences about people, things, and places.
Guided study
What です does
です is the polite ending you see again and again in beginner Japanese. It often closes a short statement that labels, identifies, or describes something.
これはほんです。
This is a book.
わたしはがくせいです。
I am a student.
あれはくるまです。
That over there is a car.
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