Japanese N4
Lesson 19 of 24
We Decided
about 12 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Say what you have decided to do.
- Report a decision that was arrived at, without claiming to have made it.
Words this lesson teaches
- きめます
- decides
- かい
- a gathering, a meeting
- つき
- a month
- みじかい
- short
- つづけます
- continues, keeps on with
- きろく
- a record, minutes
- やめます
- stops doing, gives up
- そうだん
- talking something over
What it explains
〜ことにする: I have decided to
Plain form plus ことにする. Use the past — ことにしました — for a decision already taken, and the present for one you are announcing as you take it. To decide against something, negate the inner verb: 「行かないことにしました」, I've decided not to go.
〜ことになる: it has been settled
Plain form plus ことになる. It reports an arrangement without naming its author, which makes it the standard form for anything that came out of a group, an employer or a schedule: 「来月から大阪で働くことになりました」 — I'm being posted to Osaka. Saying that with ことにしました would claim you arranged the transfer yourself.
The scene itself is in the app.
Lesson one of this track is free to read in full. From lesson two on, the story, the audio and the review are part of a free account.