みんなさん、こんにちは!
Welcome to the fourth lesson in the Learning Kanji series. This time you will discover: 六七水火年.
みんなさん、こんにちは!
Welcome to the fourth lesson in the Learning Kanji series. This time you will discover: 六七水火年.
みんなさん、こんにちは!
Welcome to our third lesson in the Learning Kanji series. This time you will discover: 四五山木月.
みんなさん、こんにちは!
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I hope our first lesson opened your appetite. Now let’s getting started for our second kanji lesson! This time you will learn 5 new kanji: 二, 三, 何, 日 and 本
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This lesson is the first lesson in our Learning Kanji series. Let’s make your first step on the path to this long and fabulous journey!
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In today’s post we are going that the combination of some nouns or adverbs with the verb する creates what is called a する verb. Let’s go!
The Japanese verb する is the equivalent of the English / to do, to make /.
Note also that する is one of the two Japanese irregular verbs.
Refer to: Japanese verbs and the following lessons.
Like in English, where for instance you have verbs such as “to do the laundry” which is basically the combination of a noun with the verb to do, there exists in Japanese some verbs which are composed of a noun plus the verb する and express the notion of to do/to make <something>.
する verbs are frequent with nouns originating from Chinese and with recent loawords (American/English), and can also be used with some adverbs.
Example:
The congugation of the verb then consists in the conjugation of the verb する:
Find the する verbs corresponding to the following nouns/adverbs, as well as their meaning:
Answers
This should not have been too complicated, the aim is more to give you the reflex to consider the form noun/adverb + する as a verbal form.
The use of する to make a verb from a noun is not systematic, though. Many nouns require the use of a particle to be grammatically correct, even if casual speech tends to drop them:
Some other words can also be used with either a particle, or not, with a subtle change in meaning:
In the first sentence we stress the word 日本語 / Japanese language / making the fact of studying more contextual, whereas in the second sentence we stress 日本語の勉強 / the study of Japanese language /, also highlighting the fact of studying itself.
This is the joy of the Japanese language and what makes it interesting to study. Many tend to use straightforward, pre-constructed, translations between Japanese and their mother tongue, but this comes most of the time with the loss of these subtleties which are key to really understanding Japanese and their culture.
よく べんきょう して ください。
/ well / study / to do / please / . /
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Today, 15th of November is a special day in Japan as it is 七五三 (しちごさん).
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If you are an intermediate Japanese learner (JLPT 3 or 4) and are interested in getting further into knowing Japan and Japanese literature, here is a cool book for you!
The book provides a selection of classical stories from famous Japanese authors (Souseki and Ryuunosuke) , with for each of them some information on the author, the background of the stories, and a side by side view of the orignal text and its translation, in addition to a quite complete vocabulary list.
A note though: you will find really little grammar, that’s the reason why I advise it for people having a minimal grammar background.
Also, be warned that these stories, in quite traditional Japanese spirit, are quite gloomy/strange and might not be to the taste of everyone.
But for those who are loving that kind of stories, or are willing to try, this book is great! So do not hesitate to have a look at it!
One more point, audio version of teh stories are available on the publisher’s web site!
Do not hesitate if you have questions or want some more details (page captions, stories…)
Stéphane
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In this lesson I will present how you can combine adjectives, like for instance “the quickest and most expansive car”. Let’s go!
References:
Construction
The combine an い adjective with another adjective, you have to replace the final い with くて.
Examples
⇒ 美味しくて甘いケーキです。 (おいしくて あまい ケーキ です。) / (This is) a tasty and sweet cake. /
⇒ 美味しくて甘くないケーキです。 (おいしくて あまくない ケーキ です。) / (This is) a neither tasty nor sweet cake. /
Construction
The combine an な adjective with another adjective, you have to replace the final な with a んで.
Example
⇒ 有名でリッチ人です。 (ゆうめいで リッチな ひと です。) / (This is) a famous and rich person. /
⇒ 有名でリッチ人ではありません。 (ゆうめいで リッチな ひと ではありません。) / (This is) a neither famous nor rich person. /
Exercise:
Combine the following adjectives to build the provided sentence:
Answers:
Here it is for today. Do not hesitate if you have questions!
またね!
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In this lesson I will present how you can express you want something using the たい form.
References:
Usage
The たい form is used to express willingness to do or have something (I want to…, I would like to…).
This form is generally called the volitional form.
Construction
The たい form is built as follows:
Type I and Type II verbs:
Type III verbs:
Copula:
Examples
Note: I precise “something” here in the translation as you cannot use たべたい to say you are basically hungry. You use たべたい when you see something you find tasty and wish you could eat it. To say you are hungry you should use: おなか が すきました., and the same with 飲む (のむ) / to drink (something) /, to say you are thirsty you should say: のど が かわきました.
One particularity of the たい form is that a verb at the たい form becomes an adjective, allowing you to say things such as “The house I want to buy is expansive.” where “I want to buy” is a qualificative for the house.
Example:
As such it folllows the adjective conjugation rules to be declined according to the degree of politeness you want to express, or the tense, or positive/negative aspects.
Polite conjugations:
Casual conjugations:
Examples:
Exercise 1:
Put the following verbs at the たい form:
Exercise 2:
Conjugate the following sentences putting the verb between brackets (「」) at the たい polite present positive, present negative, past positive and past negative forms:
Answers 1:
Answers 2:
Here it is for this lesson! Once again, this is not complicated, but you will need a little practice to master this form. And if you watch anime or drama, or read manga, you will see that this form is quite frequently used.
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In this lesson we are going to see how adjectives are getting conjugated. Let’s go!