It’s been a long time since I’ve studied Japanese and I’m trying to shake off the rust. I know how to make statements about things that I am *currently* doing or not doing, but I am unsure of how I would say that I do or do not *generally* do something.
For example, for a simple statement like “I am not eating pork,” “豚肉を食べていない” is obviously super easy, but if I wanted to say “I do not eat pork,” how would I go about it?
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I could be wrong since I’m still early in my learning journey. Isn’t it just 豚肉を食べない ?
I think plain present tense is used for that. So 豚肉は食べない.
Getting downvoted for asking a question regarding learning Japanese on r/LearnJapanese. Fucking Reddit.
As for your question, it would just be 豚肉を/は食べない
Simple present works for statements like what you said. In addition to this if you want to talk about common occurrences or habitual behaviors you can also use verb(present) + ことがある.
すしを食べることがある: I (on occasion) eat sushi