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Other Japanese Suffixes That You Need To know

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When we are talking with other people, we often use adjectives to describe and give properties to the object we are referencing to. We also sometimes use the help of adverbs to describe the adjectives and also verbs. The same thing can also be applied in Japanese because both adjectives and adverbs also exist in Japanese. In this post, we will discuss the adjective and adverb suffix and how to use them in a sentence. Adjective Suffixes In Japanese there are two kinds of adjectives, the one that is called i-adjective and also the one that is called na-adjective. The i-adjectives are the ones that ended in the vowel "-i", while na-adjectives are the ones that are followed by the particle "na" after the adjective and before the noun. Below we will discuss more about each of the adjectives. I-adjectives As mentioned above, this kind of adjective ends with the vowel "i". To use this kind of adjective in a phrase, we can just simply add it before a noun. Example...

Verb Suffixes in Japanese That a Japanese Learner Must Know

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  Japanese is an agglutinative language which mean in Japanese there are affixes that can modify the meaning of a word. In this post, we will discuss the some suffixes that can be attached to the Japanese verb that Japanese learner must know.  Basic Verb Form In Japanese basic verbs can be categorized into three. -Ichidan Verbs     The verbs that end in -eru or -iru. Example:  食べる (taberu) and 居る(iru) -Godan Verbs     Any other verbs other than the Ichidan and irregular verbs. Example:  行 く (iku) and  泳 ぐ  (oyogu) -Irregular Verb     Consist of  する(suru) and 来る(kuru) Depending on the context, basic verb form can be used for something similar to simple present tense or future tense. To make the basic verb polite, we can change the ending into -masu for ichidan verbs, and -(i)masu for godan verb. For suru it will be shimasu and for kuru it will 来ます/kimasu. Example: ichidan verb 食べる 🠆 食べます taberu 🠆 tabemasu godan ...