To Have And To Exist
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
There are two verbs I want to cover that you’ve seen before. You haven’t seen them a ton, but you’ve learned them via your various vocab decks. Those two verbs are ある and いる. We haven’t, however, gone into great detail with either of them. Now, of course we can’t go into detail with every verb or noun or adjective like this, but these two deserve some time alone. Just you, the verbs, and a hammer, so to speak.
“No! [wlm_username]! Please. No! Mercy!” they’ll scream.
“I am [wlm_username], God of hammers / Japanese Verbs!” you’ll reply.
The first thing we have to do is take a look at the two verbs so we can compare and contrast why they’re different from each other. Let’s do that right now. Before you move on, though, just make sure you know these two verbs:
a ある
a いる
We’ll look at their meanings and such more closely right… now!