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Aiko_589

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:29 pm


i already cover verb form, so do not annoy me about that.  
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:31 pm


verb tense= normal speech

yodan verb

present= asobu

present negative= asobanai

past= asonda

past negative= asobanakatta

Aiko_589


Aiko_589

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:35 pm


now i sure that some people asking how do make these tense for other yodan verb?

see here in review of yodan verb!


present= leave the way it is

present negative= change to izenkei form (change last letter to -a ex. yomu(read) becomes yoma) then add nai (yomu -> yoma -> yomanai)
and you have negative (yomanai, does not read)
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:42 pm


past= change to -te form then change the -te/-de to -ta/-da

ex. yomu -> yonde-> yonda (read past)

past negative= chnage verb to izenkei (look at my last post)

yomu-> yoma

now change to negative

yomu-> yoma -> yomanai

now take off -i

yomu-> yoma-> yomanai-> yomana

and put -katta

yomu-> yoma-> yomanai-> yomana-> yomanakatta

i know it lot of surgery but that how it make past negaticve

Aiko_589


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:46 pm


lol It's easy to tell which threads are yours. They're all in caps.

Thank you for all the lessons. They really help. 3nodding
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:48 pm


ichidan

this basically same, but it have some difference=

differenec are=

negative= take off -ru and add -nai

taberu-> tabenai


that really all you need know if you already know how make verb form or if you see my last lesson

Aiko_589


Aiko_589

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:49 pm


now for polite verb. there more than way to make polite word depending on what type of politeness. this is normal just polite. if you are looking at this lesson you probably beginner so i wont go deeper than normal polite until a few lesson later
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:51 pm


present polite yodan= change verb to ren'youkei

yomu-> yomi

now add -masu

yomu-> yomi-> yomimasu

Aiko_589


Aiko_589

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:53 pm


negative polite yodan= make ren'youkei and then put -masen

yomu-> yomi-> yomimasen
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:57 pm


past polite yodan= this is easy (some foreigner find eays because you dont need know -te forms)

make ren'youkei and and -mashita (for cuteness, you can say -mashita desu, and pronounce deh-soo instead of dehs to make sound cute, but since most girl wont get to japan until they too old to say that there no point in knowing it)

yomu-> yomi-> yomimashita

Aiko_589


Aiko_589

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:58 pm


past negative polite yodan= this same as negative except you add deshita


yomu-> yomi->yomimasen->yomimasen deshita
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:01 pm


ichidan have slightly different (not much they follow same rule but this is just in case someone get confuse and use yodan tense)

ichidan verb ren'youkei drop -ru

oboeru->oboe

that is all you need to know! apply polite ending to ichidan ren'youkei and you get same result as yodan ren'youkei give you

Aiko_589


Aiko_589

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:03 pm


future tense same as present but some suffix that show some sort of future tense used alot, but i will teach verb modify suffix later
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:07 pm


let us try some easy sentence with these lesson
(i will not Shift-JIS code so all person can read!)

Nee-chan ga heya (w)o soji shimashita

say that in normal speech and translate

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Aiko_589


Aiko_589

PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:23 pm


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