When to use it
Use it when someone invites you for sushi and it would be your first time.
The sentence in English: “I've never eaten Japanese food.”
In “I've never eaten Japanese food.” the present perfect (‘have’ + ‘eaten’) marks a life experience.
- I
- pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter
- 've
- auxiliary verbhave · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · short form of "have"; with "eaten" it talks about life experience up to now
- never
- adverbadverb of frequency
- eaten
- verbeat · form: past participle · irregular verb: eat, ate, eaten
- Japanese
- adjectiveadjective of nationality, always capitalised in English
- food
- nounnoun
The sentence in Telugu: “నేను ఎప్పుడూ జపనీస్ ఆహారం తినలేదు.”
In “నేను ఎప్పుడూ జపనీస్ ఆహారం తినలేదు.” ‘ఎప్పుడూ’ (ever) and the negative verb ‘తినలేదు’ (did not eat) together mean ‘never eaten’. The negative ‘లేదు’ is fused onto the verb.
- నేను
- pronoun'I'
- ఎప్పుడూ
- adverb'ever'; with a negative, 'never'
- జపనీస్
- adjective'Japanese', before the noun
- ఆహారం
- noun'food'
- తినలేదు
- verbtinu · tense: past, negative · tinu 'eat' + lēdu: have not eaten
What changes from one language to the other: English × Telugu
English changes the verb and adds ‘have’; Telugu only adds the negative ending.
Example conversation
— నేను ఎప్పుడూ జపనీస్ ఆహారం తినలేదు.
— I've never eaten Japanese food.
— అయితే ఈ వారాంతం వెళ్దాం!
— Then let's go this weekend!