Guillermo
Help with this sentence I am finally at Unit 2 of Minna no Nihongo and i can say this unit has been very challenging to me because Japanese has many demostratives to employ.. My question is それは何の雑誌ですか How to answer it using kono wa Thank you.
Aug 3, 2015 12:09 AM
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Hello,

Hope this helped!

 

Q, それは何の雑誌ですか? *When when the speaker talks about an object close to the listener.

A, これは くるまの雑誌です。

 

I write just basic things about これ それ この その.

 

Demostratives これ and それ

これ is used when the speaker talks about an object close to him. 

それ is used when the speaker talks about an object close to the listener. 

 

Q、それは何の雑誌ですか?

A、これは くるまの雑誌 です。

  

Demostratives この and その

 

When これ comes before a noun, it becames この. 

これは くるまの雑誌 です。

→ この雑誌は くるまの雑誌 です。

You can take 雑誌 of くるまの雑誌 off and say この雑誌は くるまの です。

 

When それ comes before a noun, it becames その.

それは くるまの雑誌です。

→その雑誌は くるまの雑誌です。

You can take 雑誌 of くるまの雑誌 off and say その雑誌は くるまの です。

August 3, 2015
You can answer in this way, however, the text books want you to answer これは車の雑誌です because they ask you それは何の雑誌ですか. (それは…ですか。--> これは…です。何の雑誌 --> 車の雑誌) Anyway, they means the same and in colloquial, there's no problem.
August 6, 2015

それは何の雑誌ですか。(=¿De qué (se trata) esa revista?) 

 

Puedes contestar: 

その雑誌は … の雑誌です。(Esa revista es la revista de ... .) *Un poquito demasiado

それは … の雑誌です。(Es de ... .) *lo que el libro de texto enseña

... の雑誌です。(La revista de ... .) *en las conversaciones cotidianas

... のです。(De ... .) *muy coloquial y es usado mucho entre cercanos 

 

Espero que te ayude. 

August 3, 2015
So my answer would be something like この雑誌は車のです
August 3, 2015
You might be having trouble because it's not grammatically correct to say このは… The correct way to say it would be これは... This is because この, その, あの, or anything in that series has to be directly followed by a noun, whereas anything in the これ,それ,あれ series cannot be followed by a noun. Try comparing these examples: この本は面白いです。This book is interesting. これは面白い本です。This is an interesting book. Note the difference in usage between the これ and この. Okay, back to your original question now. Since the question is asking what kind of or type of magazine it is, there are a lot of ways to answer the question. To describe the magazine, you can follow one of these basic descriptive sentence structures: (-no series demonstrative)雑誌は(adjective or noun with の descriptive particle)です。 (-re series demonstrative)は(adjective or noun with の descriptive particle)雑誌です。 Like: これは男の雑誌です。 This is a men's magazine. この雑誌は母のです。This magazine is my mother's. Hope this helped! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. :)
August 3, 2015
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