Mr. Yamada is not a student.
Key 1: The negative and non-perfect form in classical Japanese is /en/. The form of the polite style is /imas/, and the negative and non-perfect form in classical Japanese is also used in modern Japanese to take the polite sytle only as the complement.Key 2: It follows from Key 1 that です of the affirmative and non-perfect clause is replaced with:
では ありませんto get the corresponding negative and non-perfect counterpart The form /de wa/ [being to-Topic] is contracted in the informal speech to:
de-wa arimas-en
being to-TOPIC exist-NOT
N.B. 1. The form /desen/ is not a grammatical form. Why?じゃ
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1) やまださんは がくせいじゃ ありません。