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Can someone please do down あります/います

and how it's used....I keep getting confused on it....

posted by KenjiSama May 30, 2015 at 1:02am

Comments 4

KenjiSama
Dumb down...stupid autocorrect
May 30, 2015 at 1:02am
Ineedaname
Won't be 100% grammatical with all the right terminolgy and hope I won't make a mistake or confuse you, but here we go: あります denotes the existence of non-living things, います for living things. So 猫がいます there is a cat います because the cat is a living being and あります is wrong. Now 椅子があります There is a chair for a chair is not living あります. Both sentences can also means there are cats/chairs respectively.
May 30, 2015 at 3:03am
mog86uk
Is there anything more specific you find confusing about it?
May 30, 2015 at 11:10am
Arachkid
Keep in mind plants, although living, use あります, not います.
June 3, 2015 at 8:27am