Meanings
- 1cooking; cookery; cuisinenountakes する
- 2dealing with (skillfully); handling (well); managingnountakes する
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Conjugation
| Form | Conjugated | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Polite Present (~masu) | します | します |
| Polite Past (~mashita) | しました | しました |
| Polite Negative (~masen) | しません | しません |
| Plain Negative (~nai) | しない | しない |
| Te-form (Connecting) | して | して |
| Plain Past (~ta) | した | した |
| Potential (Can do) | できる | できる |
In a sentence
Are you a good cook?
How it works
は (topic) raises the topic (料理 (cooking)) — “as for cooking…”. 得意 (good at) is a na-adjective standing on its own as the description. There is no copula and no polite です (is); the bare 得意 (good at) plus a rising question mark makes this a casual “are you good at it?”. The subject “you” is never said — context carries it.