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Mō kaeranakucha naranai n desu yo.
I have to go home now.
Mō kaeranakucha.
I have to go home now.
8.6. Permission
To express permission or to say ‘someone MAY do
something,’ the Japanese use the gerund -te + the particle
mo ‘even’ + some form of the adjective ii ‘it is good, it is
okay.’ The expression -te mo ii desu means something like
‘even doing something is okay.’ To say ‘You may go home,’
you say Kaette mo ii desu. Such sentences are often followed
by the insistive particle yo. Instead of ii desu, kamaimasen can
be used to mean ‘okay.’
