のが好き (no ga suki) Meaning Japanese Grammar - Love Doing
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Anna Baffa Volpe
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The expression のが好き (no ga suki) means like doing, love doing.
In this post we'll analyse together the use of 好きな as Adjective in な in its attributive and predicative function and the structure のが好き that is used preceded by a verb.
I'll also add various phrases of daily use with the structure のが好き and some extracts from original material on the Net.
I like: use of the Adjective 好きな
好き is a noun and with the addition of the particle な it becomes an adjective in な with the meaning of predilect, favoured, preferred.
In the attributive function 好きな precedes the noun:
- 好きな曲 the
favourite song - 好きな国 the
favourite country - 好きな人 the
person I like
好きな音楽はロックだ。
My favourite music is rock.
In the predicative function 好きな loses the particle な and is followed by the copula だ in the plain form and です in the polite form.
お母さんはインド料理が好きだ。
My mother likes Indian food.
If a Japanese friend asks you what is your 大好物 daikōbutsu , he wants to know your favourite dish / food.
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今回は男性は女性のこの反応がめっちゃ好きですという話をしていきたいなあと思います。
This time I would like to talk about how men really like these reactions from women.
The quoted sentence is taken from a Video on YouTube posted by a guy talking about the reactions 反応 and the behaviour of girls that boys particularly like.
The phrase we are interested in for this post is:
男性は女性のこの反応がめっちゃ好きです。
Men really like these reactions from women.
I like a lot, I adore, I love
If we like very much a thing, a person, a situation we have several simple ways of saying it:
- とても好だ we use the adverb meaning
very much - or we use the kanji 大
great,huge,bigand have the expression 大好だ - the young commonly use instead めっちゃ which replaces とても, as we heard in the previous audio
Two comments on music videos, with informal expressions:
めっちゃすき。
I really love it.
In the colloquial context, we can translate the expression in various ways, following the new expressions common among young people.
この曲まじ好き。
I really like this song.
子供が好きな食べ物－ランキング
Children's favourite foods - ranking
The particle が is often omitted in informal and colloquial speeches.
シャンソン大好き！
I love French chanson!
I like doing: use of the structure のが好き
The structure のが好き is used when we express what we like through a verb.
私は日本のアニメを見るのが好きだ。
I like watching Japanese anime.
If we like reading we can use this structure and say:
本を読むのが好きだ。
I like reading books.
or we can use the Noun 読書 reading.
読書が好きだ。
I like reading.
The same structure is used with other adjectives in な or in い.
For example:
- のが上手:
be good at doing something - if we are not good or inclined to do a certain thing, the structure is: のが苦手だ
I don't like it
The negative form of the structure のが好き is obtained with the negative of the copula:
- だ in the plain form becomes ではない or じゃない
- です in the polite form becomes ではありません or じゃありません
あきら
水泳は好きですか。
Do you like swimming?
みちこ
いいえ、好きではありません。
No, I don't like it.
Another common way of saying I don't like something uses an adjective in the affirmative form, but with a negative meaning: 嫌い for all the things or situations that we dislike or hate.
Examples of のが好き
ずっと大好きだよ。
I will always love you.
話を聞くのが好きな人10の特徴
10 characteristics of people who like to listen.
In this last sentence, we find the use of the Adjective in な: のが好きな followed by the noun 人 human, person, someone.
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