by ekfiscus | May 12, 2017 | Verbs
How do you put on clothes in Japanese? It’s easy! Everything that you put on above the waist; shirts, dresses, jackets, uses the verb きる. For hats or things going on top of your head you use かぶる. When wearing glasses you use かける. For accessories like watches or...
by ekfiscus | May 12, 2017 | Verbs
Here is a helpful trick to remember how to transform Sailor Moon style all the different kinds of verbs into て form! The song lyrics list the different endings of verbs and how to conjugate each ending into て form. う、つ、る 〜って む、ぬ、ぶ 〜んで く 〜いて...
by Ray | May 11, 2017 | Verbs
う and る verbs can be sort of… pesky. But don’t give up hope yet! Japanese is fairly organized, and infrequently has exceptions like English does. But here’s the rundown: う verbs typically either end in an う-specific sound (like ゆ, ぐ, or ぶ) or with...
by Ray | May 11, 2017 | Plain Style, Verbs
~て form? Hoh yeah, buster. て form is one of the most useful forms of conjugation in Japanese due to its many uses: -describing how something currently is -making requests -asking if something is alright to do -to show something was completed But that’ll be in...
by nmflees | Apr 29, 2017 | Adjectives, Plain Style, Verbs
Polite The polite form. This is quite possibly the most important– and most common– form in Japanese. It is particularly important to those first learning the language. Due to the nature of Japanese culture, the polite form is very commonplace. It is used...
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