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～ことにします VS. ～ことにしました - blazerqb11 - 2011-03-14
I'm near the end of the Genki textbooks, and this is confusing me a little. They have two example sentences for ことにする, one that ends in the present and one that ends in the past:
車を買うことにしました。
We have decided to buy a car.
あの人がかわいそうだから、あまり文句を言わないことにします。
I will not make too many complaints. I am feeling sorry for him already.
As far as I can tell, both of these situations describe something that you have decided in the past, but will do in the future. The only thing that I can think of is that perhaps the second is meant to be a habitual action in the future, but something you haven't started doing yet.
Can anyone give me insight as to the difference between these two forms?
～ことにします VS. ～ことにしました - zachandhobbes - 2011-03-14
Second seems more like the 'now' tense than the past, really
～ことにします VS. ～ことにしました - nest0r - 2011-03-14
http://books.google.com/books?id=ptACuS6HnpUC&lpg=PA59&ots=TalM2srDX&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q=koto ni shimasu shimashita&f=false
～ことにします VS. ～ことにしました - chamcham - 2011-03-15
Look at this:
http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=kotonisuru
～ことにします VS. ～ことにしました - blazerqb11 - 2011-03-15
zachandhobbes Wrote:Second seems more like the 'now' tense than the past, reallyThe second one is the present tense one I was referring too.
nest0r Wrote:http://books.google.com/books?id=ptACuS6HnpUC&lpg=PA59&ots=TalM2srDX&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q=koto ni shimasu shimashita&f=falseThanks, that was an extremely clear differentiation of the two.