It's a Bit Expensive!ちょっと高くない？
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I was asked by my husband not to forget to buy his shaving razors at a drugstore.
夫にドラッグストアで髭剃り用の剃刀を買うのを忘れないでねと頼まれた。
Those costed about 2000yen for eight pieces.
８枚で約2000円もしたよ。
It's a bit expensive!
高いよー！！
Today's dinner:Sukiyaki
夫にドラッグストアで髭剃り用の剃刀を買うのを忘れないでねと頼まれた。
Those costed about 2000yen for eight pieces.
８枚で約2000円もしたよ。
It's a bit expensive!
高いよー！！
Today's dinner:Sukiyaki
They costed about 2000yen for eight pieces.
Thank you for your correction.
The correct use of tense always confuse me.
I need more study.
それは怖いな～
そんなに高い
あなたは大丈夫かo.o?
ちょっと高いよね～＼(◎o◎)／！
割引券を使って安くなったから助かったよ。(^_^;)
でもなぜ日本の物が高いですか？
どのメーカーもだいたい一刃２００円はするんだよ～(>_<)
Those cost about 2000 yen for eight pieces.
The past tense of "cost" is "cost". The perfect participial form is have/has/had "cost".
(Exception: if used transitively meaning assign a cost to, then the past tense is "costed". Example: "The repaving of the lot was costed at eleven thousand dollars." However, this usage is a bit obscure. It would be much more common to say something like "The cost of repaving the lot was quoted at eleven thousand dollars.")
You can also write the price as ¥2000. Anyone (in the English-speaking world) who doesn't recognize this currency symbol won't recognize the word "yen" either. (However, other yen symbols, like 円, are not used outside Japan.)
That's a bit expensive!
Thank you for your corrections and detailed explanation.
Frankly, it's very hard for me to understand English grammar in English, but at the same time it's also helpful to improve my skills.
I think your comments are also just another learning opportunity.
I've been treated wrong past tense and of course I can't still clearly understand about "tense".
I'm learning it bit by bit.ぼちぼちな＾＾
Weak verbs (sometimes called regular verbs) form their past tense by adding -ed (or just d if it already ends in e).
Today I walk. Yesterday I walked. I have walked before.
Today I hurry. Yesterday I hurried. I have hurried before.
Today I finish. Yesterday I finished. I have finished.
Today I socialize. Yesterday I socialized. I've socialized many times.
Once you learn the pattern, weak verbs are easy. Most English verbs are weak verbs.
However, a couple hundred of the most popular verbs are strong verbs (sometimes called "irregular" verbs, although they do follow patterns, albeit ones that are harder to learn). Strong verbs form their past tense and perfect participial forms by changing the root word itself (mostly by changing the vowel). Today I drink. Yesterday I drank. Today I swim. Yesterday I swam. Today I win. Yesterday I won. Today I think. Yesterday I thought.
The easiest way to learn the forms for strong verbs is to just memorize the three major forms ("principle parts") when you learn each verb.
Drink, drank, have drunk.
Sing, sang, have sung.
Swim, swam, have swum (though some Americans say have swam).
Think, thought, have thought.
Bring, brought, have brought.
Choose, chose, have chosen.
Etc.
Each verb has just three principle parts, so you can just learn the three forms when you learn each verb. (The rest of the forms of the verb are all based on these three parts. For example, the imperfect participle is always formed by adding -ing to the present tense form of the verb.)
Strong verbs have been in the English language for a relatively long time (since before Old English became distinct from Old Germanic) and tend to be verbs that we use frequently.
The good news about strong verbs is, there aren't that many of them. At first, almost all of the English verbs you are learning are strong verbs, but as your English vocabulary grows, you'll encounter fewer and fewer of them. Eventually you'll reach a point where all the new verbs you learn will be weak verbs, because you'll already know all the strong verbs.
It's probably best to think of "cost" as a strong verb and just memorize its forms as "cost", "cost", and "cost". (The history may actually be different -- some linguists think cost was a weak verb originally but the D was absorbed into the T because they're such similar sounds. There are a couple of other verbs that end in T and follow the same pattern, e.g., "hurt".)
Thank you for spending a lots of your valuable time.
I'm going to study carefuly with your advices.
My husband asked me not to forget to buy his shaving razors when I went to the drugstore.
They cost about 2000yen for eight blades.
Thank you for your corrections!
Blade is expensive in your country isn't it?
How do you say "shaving razor" in japanese? Please can you write it in hiragana because I cannot read kanji very well >_<
Today is another hot day!
we usually say "ひげそり" for "shaving razor" in japanese.
FIY:髭剃り（ひげそり
It's a Bit Expensive!ちょっと高くない？
Based on your Japanese, it looks to me like the title of this entry is more of a question to the reader. Like you want the reader to agree with you that the blades are expensive. So, I would write "Isn't It A Bit Expensive?" or "A Bit Expensive, Isn't It?"
Thank you for your correction.
yes, you're right.(Oops!Now you know.You are Japanese,aren't you?^^)
剃刀高いね、仕方ないね。
Enjoy your NY holidays!
いつも高いな～と思いながらしぶしぶ買います。
自分のじゃないと高く感じるのかしら、ははは(^_^;)
My husband asked me not to forget to buy his shaving razors when I went to the pharmacy store.
「drug」はいつもマイナス意味を見ています。例えば：drug addict - 麻薬常用者, drug dealer - 麻薬の売人
Tips for how to stop smoking, drinking, gambling and drugs. 喫煙、飲酒、ギャンブル、麻薬を止める方法。
プラスの表現は「pharmacy」と「medicine」を使います。
「pharmacy store」の言葉はもっと普段ですが、四人の英語を使う本国人は「drugstore」の言葉は訂正しませんから、「drugstore」を使ってもいいと思います。
そうなんですね！
日本では、だいたいドラッグストアの方を使い、ファーマシーはほとんど使いません。
国によっていろいろですから、貴重な意見を聞けてよかったです。
外国でうっかりドラッグストアなんて言ったら大変な国もあるんですね。
気をつけなくっちゃ。
勉強になりましたよ。
ありがとうございます。＾＾
Thank you for your encouragement!