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 Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:21 pm
I just want to know the difference. Mainly, I want to know why you can't put a "ni" in "doko desu ka" like how you do in "doko ni imasu ka."
Why can't it be doko ni desu ka? What are the technicalities here?
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:53 am
The short answer is ni always goes before aru/iru when a place or question of where a place is, is involved. Not so with Desu.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:46 pm
The best way to explain it is this way:
You can't use "ni" with "desu" ever. It's just something you'll have to accept and remember ^_^
"desu" is a special kind of verb. It's not so much an action but a state... If you want, look up "copula" because that is the part of speech it is.
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