ながら “While doing -ing“ in Japanese | JLPT N4 |

WHY SHOULD I KNOW THIS GRAMMAR ?? IT MAKES U SOUND NATIVE !! [yeahhhhh] Nagara is a great grammar point to know if you want to express doing more than one action at a time. You could use this when you are studying and listening to music, running and thinking about your life, exercising and holding a burger. IMPORTANT NOTE : *THE VERB WITH NAGARA IS THE SUPPLEMENTARY VERB WHILE THE VERB AT END IS THE “MAIN VERB“ *DON’T USE NAGARA WITH “INSTANT VERBS“! it will give a complete wrong meaning to your sentence ! instant verbs = to sit/to stand/to start/to end/to wear etc. these actions finish the very moment they begin ! so if you say “i sit while eating dinner“ すわりながら たべます [NOOOOOO!!!!] [suwariNAGARA tabmasu] WRONG !!!!!! -USING NAGARA it means - YOU ARE SITTING DOWN IN SLOWWWW MOTION AND YOU ARE GULPING FOOD AT THE SAME TIME !! sounds weird isnt it ????? *THEN WHAT SHOULD I USE ? use TE FORM RATHER THAN NAGARA . 座って食べる suwatte tabemasu /taberu CORRECT! now it means you EAT IN THE STATE OF BEING SITTE