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If an い adjective comes before a noun in a past tense sentence, does the い adjective also have to be past tense?
For example, if I were trying to say something like I saw the new movie…would I say that as:
あたらしいえいがをみました。
or would it need to be…
あたらしかったえいがをみました。Thanks for your help.
It doesn’t have to be – actually, conjugating the adjective too results in a subtly different meaning.
For this particular example:
あたらしいえいがをみました。 = I saw the new movie, and it’s still new.
あたらしかったえいがをみました。 = I saw a movie which was new at the time, but it’s not new any more.
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