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Jeremi desu yo!

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Today's lesson= Doushi! Doushi! Doushi! (Verbs, verbs, verbs!)

BONUS: Sentence Structure!

Minasan, o-genki desu ka? (Everyone, how are you?)

Genki desu! (I'm good!)

Hisashiburi desu ne! (It's been a long time)

Gomenosai ! (I'm sorry :()

Yeah sorry guys for not posting a blog post in a while,

up until now my internet had changed to dial-up so this site was virtually innaccessible, it sucked!

But aha!

I would never let you guys down! I'm back, and better than ever! I thought that we would do something very useful, learning verbs! (doushi)

One of the characteristics of the Japanese language is that the verb generally comes at the end of the sentence. Since Japanese's sentences often omit the subject, the verb is probably the most important part in understanding the sentence. However, Verbs forms are considered to be difficult to learn. The good news is the system itself is rather simple, as far as memorizing certain rules. Unlike the more complex verb conjugation of other languages, Japanese verbs do not have a different form to indicate the person (first-, second, and third-person), the number (singular and plural), or gender.

In Japanese, there are two types of verbs, the Godan verbs and the Ichidan verbs.

These two group of verbs do have there differences.

Goudan verbs end with ~u.

Where as Ichidan verbs end with ~iru, or ~eru.

There are some exceptions to this rule, however, which I will go through.

There is also a third verb group known as the irregular verb group,

only containing the two verbs, kuru (to come) and suru (to do).

The verb "suru" is probably the most often used verb in Japanese. It is used as "to do," "to make," or "to cost". It is also combined with many nouns (of Chinese or Western origin) to make them into verbs. These examples will be shown later.

Okay, firstly, Goudan verbs!:

• hanasu （話す） - to speak
• kaku （書く） - to write
• kiku （聞く） - to listen
• matsu （待つ） - to wait
• nomu （飲む） - to drink

And here are the exceptions for the goudan-verbs:

• hairu （入る） - to enter
• hashiru （走る） - to run
• iru （いる） - to need
• kaeru （帰る） - to return
• kagiru （限る） - to limit
• kiru （切る） - to cut
• shaberu （しゃべる） - to chatter
• shiru （知る） - to know

Group 2 verbs, Ichidan-

• kiru （着る） - to wear
• miru （見る） - to see
• okiru （起きる） - to get up
• oriru （降りる） - to get off
• shinjiru （信じる） - to believe
• akeru （開ける） - to open
• ageru （あげる） - to give
• deru （出る） - to go out
• neru （寝る） - to sleep
• taberu （食べる） - to eat

The verb "suru" is probably the most often used verb in Japanese. It is used as "to do," "to make," or "to cost". It is also combined with many nouns (of Chinese or Western origin) to make them into verbs. Here are some examples.

• benkyousuru （勉強する） - to study
• ryokousuru （旅行する） - to travel
• yushutsusuru （輸出する） - to export
• dansusuru （ダンスする） - to dance
• shanpuusuru （シャンプーする） - to shampoo

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In Japanese sentences are structed SOV (Subject Object Verb)

Sometimes the subject is just implied in Japanese and is not actually used.

This occurs if:

The subjects been told already in a previous sentence,

Or it's just so obvious that you wouldn't need to know the subject.

Unlike in English, there are particles in Japanese.

In Japanese particles usually establish the subject, or objective and give it sense.

In Japanese all adjectives end with i.

MASU - for present tense
MASHITA - for past tense
MASEN - for present negative
MASEN DESHITA - for past negative

Thank you for reading this lesson!

This lesson is EXTREMELY important, so

if you've taken it in, wow! You're Japanese

will really really improve!

Omedetto gozaimasu! (Congratulations!)