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10-14-2009, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by SceptileMaster View Post
There have been a few topics about this subject before. Nagoyankee has said that じゃありません is not/very rarely used. Now that I have a formal Japanese teacher (it's not a greatly difficult course quite easy so far, nothing I didn't know, but I need a high school level foreign language qualification to get into Japanese at university) she said じゃありません is not uncommon. She is also a native speaker. So I think either may acceptable.
Nagoyankee has said specifically that じゃない and ではありません are the typical pairings. I was taught じゃありません in school many years ago, but I have never a single time ever heard it said by a Japanese person. I lived in Kanagawa and went to school in Tokyo, for what it's worth.
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