na-i, na-kusu, mu, bu Being a student studying English, I memorized the word “nothing” as the Japanese “nashi,” which comes from the adjective “nai.”　Things either exist or not. In Japanese, they are “aru” or “nai” respectively. “Nanimo nai” means “there is nothing.” “Nanimo nakatta” means “there was nothing.” Learning conjugations is tedious. Let me show [...]