Tag Archives: Grammar
Don’t do that with short forms
We often hit on doing stuff or requesting stuff be done, but sometimes there are just things you don’t want people to do. Like don’t eat the car. Not taking pictures in a museum.
To start be sure that you have reviewed short forms present tense. Because what you are going to do is add ～でください [...]
Basic Existence
Things exist in this world and we need to know how to tell others that. You might say “there is a TV in the living room”, “There is a McDonalds down the street”, “Over there is a TV”, “Tomorrow is a Test”. These are examples of phrases we use that show existence.
The root verb [...]
Japanese Verb Conjugation Te-Form
Today we are going to go over te-form’s. This is VERY important to the Japanese language because it leads to so very much. If there is one type of verb conjugation to learn and learn extremely well it would be this. For that reason this might be a bit long for some, [...]
Japanese Verb Conjugation Past Tense
Hopefully you have been following along for the last couple of days with “Understanding u-verbs and ru-verbs” and “Japanese Verb Conjugation Present and Future Tense“. If you haven’t please read both of them as they will help this one make a bit more sense. With that being said lets just jump right it [...]
Japanese Verb Conjugation Present and Future Tense
Yesterday we talked about understanding u-verbs and ru-verbs, and knowing which was which and how to tell them apart. Knowing yesterdays information is very important for doing verb conjugation which is a pretty big part of any language. If you haven’t had a chance to read understanding u-verbs and ru-verbs do that right [...]
Understanding u-verbs and ru-verbs
When it comes to ru-vebs there are a lot of weird things going on, but lets first look at irregular verbs since they are an easy exception. The irregular verb will have a る at the end of the word, but to determine if it is an irregular verb or not we need to [...]
Grammar 1
To start it is ok if you don’t know the words I have the translations of the sentences. I recommend you try to learn the words as we go and look them up. The important thing we are after for now is grammar so we know what to do with the words once we start [...]
