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Verb-related particles
Particles Reloaded Outline Particles used with verbs The direct object 「を」 particle The target 「に」 particle The directional 「へ」 particle The contextual 「で」 particle When location is the topic When direct object is the topic ... More... 0 Comments
Past Tense Verb Conjugations
It's all in the past Outline Changing verbs to the past tense Past tense for ru-verbs Past tense for u-verbs Past-negative tense for all verbs Changing verbs to the past tense We will finish defining all the basi... More... 0 Comments
The Negative Tense of Verbs
Sometimes you have to be negative Outline Negating verbs Conjugating verbs into the negative Negating verbs Now that we've seen how to declare things and perform actions with verbs, we want to be able to say the ne... More... 0 Comments
Verb Basics
Let's do stuff with verbs! Outline Role of Verbs Classifying verbs into ru-verbs and u-verbs Appendix: iru/eru u-verbs Role of Verbs We've now learned how to describe nouns in various ways with other nouns and adj... More... 0 Comments
Adjectives Explained
Beautiful, is an Adjective Outline Properties of Adjectives The na-adjective The i-adjective An annoying exception Properties of Adjectives Now that we can connect two nouns together in various ways using particl... More... 0 Comments
The Major Particles
Practical Particular Particles Outline Defining grammatical functions with particles The 「は」 topic particle The 「も」 inclusive topic particle The 「が」 identifier particle Defining grammatical functions with particles ... More... 0 Comments
Expressing state-of-being
Because I said so! Outline Declaring something is so and so using 「だ」 Conjugating for the negative state-of-being Conjugating for the past state-of-being To sum up Declaring something is so and so using 「だ」 One o... More... 1 Comments
Hiragana
ひらがな Outline What is Hiragana? The Muddied Sounds The Small 「や」、「ゆ」、and 「よ」 The Small 「つ」 The Long Vowel Sound What is Hiragana? Hiragana is the basic Japanese phonetic alphabet. It represents every sound in th... More... 0 Comments
Kanji
Now you want me to learn Chinese too?? Outline What is Kanji? Learning Kanji Reading Kanji Why Kanji? What is Kanji? In Japanese, nouns and stems of adjectives and verbs are almost all written in Chinese characte... More... 1 Comments
Katakana
アイ・ラブ・カタカナ！ Outline What is Katakana? The Long Vowel Sound The Small 「ア、イ、ウ、エ、オ」 Some examples of words in katakana What is Katakana? As mentioned before, katakana is mainly used for words imported from foreig... More... 0 Comments