3 Verb Groups in Japanese

Japanese verbs can be categorized into 3 groups.

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!

Japanese Adjectives I Adjectives and NA Adjectives い形容詞+な形容詞 (I keiyoshi+Na keiyoshi)

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.

I adjectives and NA adjectives

 

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.
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Making Negative form of I adjective

  1. Erase い(i)
  2. Put く(ku)
  3. 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 

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い形容詞(I adjectives)
い形容詞(I adjectives)

 

 

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)
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!

 

YouTube video about 2 types of Adjectives.

 

Japanese Grammar.1 | I am ~ , You are ~ in Japanese. 私は〜です。あなたは〜です。

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Grammar


  B  です。
   A      wa     B         desu.

→  is 

*In Japanese, “wa” almost always comes after the subject.
Sometimes we put “ga” instead of “wa” to emphasize the subject.

 

Examples

1)日本人です。

→I am Japanese

 

2)インド人です。
→I am an Indian.

 

3)あなたは、日本人です。

→You are Japanese.

 

4)あなたは、インド人です。

→You are an Indian.

 

5)わたしは、クマール です。

→ I am Kumar

 

6)は、先生です。

→ He is a teacher

 

7)先生若いです。

→The teacher is young

 

8)彼女かわいいです。

→She is cute.