Verbs 101

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Elgin

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• 1 Aug 2004

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I hope this hasn`t been asked, I did a search and found none.

I need a lesson in verbs, can someone give ma a simple explanation without kanji or katakana on how to use verbs and all their forms. I have no idea how they look like so please list them for me.

I found this site Japanese Verbs - Introduction and Table of Contents on google can someone confirm if this is all correct?

 

Last edited: 1 Aug 2004

Elizabeth

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22 Apr 2003

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It looks fine to me. Conjugation building from the 5 base forms as a structured approach before having to memorize the verbs in each class. But isn't this what they're supposed to be teaching you ? How it is possible to get by at all without knowing these ? :?

 

blessed

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24 Jul 2004

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wooow, that looks like a heck of a lot to learn. This language is going to take for ever.

 

Elizabeth

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blessed said:

wooow, that looks like a heck of a lot to learn. This language is going to take for ever.

Click to expand...

If you're interested in picking up elementary conversational patterns first buy any phrase/guidebook or introductory text and begin with the 'talking about yourself' dialogues.

*7 or 8 word sentences to jump start your natural speech.*

どうして日本語を勉強していますか？ (Why are you studying Japanese?)
希望がかなうといいですね。 (I hope your wish comes true).
がんばってね。

 

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Elgin

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23 Oct 2003

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• 2 Aug 2004

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woo it aint that bad were not learning french verbs here lol.

I`ve only been in Japanese high school for one month and I knew nothing when I got here so they taught me hiragana, how to count, some words.

Alright I`m going all out on this, I`ve got one month of natsu yasumi left before I get back to school so I want to know how verbs work. (is that even possible?)

alright then I`m gonna buy a case of ripobitan D faitooo!

 

Dan B

"Follow your bliss."

1 Jun 2004

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• 25 Aug 2004

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Luc,

Best of luck in your studies! And thanks for posting that link. It seems to be just the kind of summary I've been looking for!

がんばって。

Dan

 

kisu

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4 May 2003

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• 26 Aug 2004

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That's exactly what I've been searching for, thank you so much! *kiss*

~Kisu