〜じゃありません
JLPT N5 です and basic sentencesis not (polite negative of です)
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Replace desu with ja arimasen to say that something is not the case. Ja arimasen is the everyday spoken form; dewa arimasen is the slightly more formal version. It attaches to nouns and na-adjectives.
Examples
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Watashi wa sensei ja arimasen.
I am not a teacher.
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それは水じゃありません。
Sore wa mizu ja arimasen.
That is not water.