deshita

Obviously, * Desu/deshita/de arimasen/de arimasen deshita * Masu/masen/mashita/masen deshita Then add a few more * if * while * want to <verb> * passive * honorific * etc.

Japanese past tense: -mashita for verbs, deshita for adverbs/adjectives In English, nothing is simple.

France: bon apetit (dig in?) Japan: yoroshiku onegaishimasu, tadaima, itadakimasu, genki, otsukaresama deshita, ganbatte ne,...

A formal translation would be "Anata wa tabemasen deshita." Somewhere between 9 and 12 syllables depending on pronunciation.

The same is true of "tabemasen deshita", which could have been "kutta" meaning "did not eat", but much less polite.

Polite is "suki de wa arimasen deshita" (but again, the easy way is "suki de wa nakatta desu").

Again to make it polite you can say "suki de wa arimasen deshita" (or "suki de wa nakatta desu" if you want to sound like an uneducated bumpkin like me).

If you want to make it polite, the polite past tense of "nai" is "arimasen deshita" (but you can get away with "nakatta desu" in virtually every situation).

A formal translation would be "Anata wa tabemasen deshita." Somewhere between 9 and 12 syllables depending on pronunciation.

The same is true of "tabemasen deshita", which could have been "kutta" meaning "did not eat", but much less polite.

Polite is "suki de wa arimasen deshita" (but again, the easy way is "suki de wa nakatta desu").

Again to make it polite you can say "suki de wa arimasen deshita" (or "suki de wa nakatta desu" if you want to sound like an uneducated bumpkin like me).