--- In [email protected], "RICHARD W WILCOX"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've never heard the -cha ending by itself, but in informal
speech -cha is used as a shortened form of -te wa: tabecha ikenai =
tabete wa ikenai = You mustn't eat.
You'll hear the -cha at the end of a sentence if you watch a lot of
Japanese TV, anime, or movies. It's commonly used in colloquial
Japanese when they mean to say "I have to (do something)." Examples:
-mou ikanakucha. (I have to go now.)
-kyou wa hayaku nenakucha. (I have to go to bed early tonight.)
-nihongo no benkyou o shinakucha. (I have to study Japanese.)
As you can see the form is always "-nakucha", which is a shortend
form of "-nakucha ikenai". You can also say:
-mou ikanakya.
-kyou wa hayaku nenakya.
-nihongo no benkyou o shinakya.
Kamui
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