現在 – JLPT N3 Vocabulary

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現在

genzai

Meaning

    now, current
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日本語英語
現在、韓国と日本の政府との間で、教科書問題が両国間にかかわる重要な問題へと発展しています。At present the text book issue between the Korean and Japanese governments is developing into a significant problem affecting both countries.
倫理の点から言うと、技術関連の大原則は「現在への責任」だが、「未来への責任」という新しい考え方が出てきた。From an ethical point of view, the great principle of technology is “responsibility to the present” but the new way of thinking, “responsibility to the future” has emerged.
国文法の現在形はこれからのことを示す用法が多い。There are many uses of the ‘present tense’ of Japanese grammar which indicate things yet to happen.
このような場合は“現在時制”を使います。We use “present tense” for this kind of case.
惰性に身を任せているがために今のような現在があるんですね。I’ve ended up in my present state from having indulged myself.
進行形の文では、動詞のing形、つまり現在分詞となります。In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the -ing form verb, that is the present participle.

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