N5 grammar

〜じゃありません

jaarimasen

Saying what something is not

Formation

じゃありません is the negative of です: this is not that. The longer ではありません says the same thing in a stiffer register, which is why signs and announcements prefer it. Casually the whole thing shrinks to じゃない.

Examples

〜じゃありません is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. I'm not a junior high school student.

  2. It isn't a real apartment.

  3. But confessed freely, I am not the Christ.

  4. He is not a high school student.

  5. This is fact, not fiction.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.