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Do you say:
あの は しじわる です
Or is it?
あれ は しじわる です
I’m a bit confused because, in English you’d say: “This is”.
But Koichi wrote that あの is more along the lines of: “This …. is”あの is the adjective version so your first sentence is wrong.
It’s the difference between “that is cool” and “that cat is cool” (both being that over there)
あの comes before a noun and あれ IS the noun.=^..^=Thanks for the quick response!
Really good explanation, I get it now.この、その and あの do always precede a noun, but keep in mind that they may precede a noun in Japanese but not in English due to the different structure of sentences.
あれはすごいです - That(over there) is amazing.
あのくるまはすごいです – That car (over there) is amazing.
This may be weird thinking of mine but I almost think of it as あ with a possessive の particle. So you could think… Who’s car is is it? It’s “THAT” car. As I said, pretty weird way of looking at it because obviously “that” or “this” can’t possess anything.
@zeldaskitten They are pronouns, not adjectives. Sure you could explain it like an adjective (preceding a noun) but that seems like it would confuse beginners more than anything.
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Daniel.
Its a “Pre-noun adjectival” according to denshi jisho. I always thought of it as adjectivey but never confused it with い or な adjs.
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