It’s necessary to memorize those 3 groups so that you can change the form of verbs to create masu form(polite form), past tense etc…
YouTube video.
Here is the youtube video about 3 verb groups.(in Hindi)
3 verb groups in Japanese
Here are the 3 groups of Japanese verbs.
As you can see, you can differentiate those 3 groups with how the verb ends. We have many verbs in group.1 and group2 but we have only 2 verbs in group3.
How to make masu form?
“Masu form” is a polite form of verbs.
It can be present tense as well as future tense depending on the contexts.
Now that you learned 3 verb groups, you can create masu form following the rules below.
For more info on masu form, please watch this video!
Hello! I am Mayo, a Japanese YouTuber/ Japanese language teacher.
Today, I wanna Introduce 37 I Adjectives.
2 types of adjectives in Japanese
Before introducing the new words, let me briefly explain about 2 types of Adjectives.
In Japanese, there are 2 types of Adjectives which are い形容詞(I adjectives)&な形容詞(NA adjectives)
There are differences in shapes and how to use them.
Hello! I am Mayo, a Japanese YouTuber/ japanese language teacher.
Today, I wanna teach you about Japanese Adjective which is called 形容詞 (Keiyoshi) in Japanese.
2 types of adjectives in Japanese
In Japanese, there are 2 types of Adjectives.い形容詞(I adjectives)&な形容詞(NA adjectives)
There are differences in shapes and how to use them.
Examples for I adjectives(い形容詞)
“Mt. Fuji is high”
→富士山は高いです。
If you want to make this sentence negative, there will be several forms.
———————————- Making Negative form of I adjective
Erase い(i)
Put く(ku)
Put ないですor はないです or くありません or くはありません
———————————-
い形容詞(I adjectives)
い形容詞(I adjectives)
Examples for NA adjectives(な形容詞)
“Cherry blossoms are beautiful.”
→桜はきれいです。
If you want to make this sentence negative, you have to put じゃないですor ではないです or じゃありません or ではありません
な形容詞(Na Adjective)な形容詞(Na Adjective)
I hope you understand what are the 2 types of Adjectives and how to make negative forms.
I will probably make another article about how to make various sentences of 2 types of adjectives.
So, stay tuned!