An introduction to Japanese - Syntax, Grammar & Language
2.3. NOUN INFLECTION 71 2.3 Noun inflection Nouns do not inflect in Japanese. More interestingly, they don’t even de- cline like ...
72 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR that acts as context for , and that this construction is closely related to the idea of a compound no ...
2.3. NOUN INFLECTION 73 orange juice, milk and tea, and that’s all they bought, then we can list all these things with : ”(I) bo ...
74 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR you tell them to, and it doesn’t suddenly become night because you ordain it so. At least not without ...
2.3. NOUN INFLECTION 75 for , which is. It also explains its past tense: , since is a normal verb and thus contracts in its past ...
76 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR bases form ( ) ( ) This helper verb is used in combination with verbs in their , so that the polite f ...
2.4. PRONOUNS: 77 tense for , , at the end: ( ). ”This was a book.” ”This was not a book.” ”This was not a book.” While, again, ...
78 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR refer to things in the speaker’s personal zone, words starting with refer to things in the listener’s ...
2.4. PRONOUNS: 79 with examples: ”This is fast.” ”That’s black.” ”That (over there)’s broken.” ”Which do you like?” Notice the p ...
80 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR way of referring to someone: ”Over here we have Mr. Carver”, rather than just saying ”This is Mr. Car ...
2.5. SPECIAL VERBS 81 meaning this person (I/me/you/him/he/her/she). that person (him/he, her/she). that person over there (you) ...
82 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR of course also be used to describe the process of ”becoming” itself, (such as ”to quickly become [... ...
2.5. SPECIAL VERBS 83 respectively. To illustrate the difference between animate and inanimate, let’s look at two sentences: ”(T ...
84 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR 2.5.3 Doing: We’ve already seen as irregular verb, and it has been used in enough example sentences t ...
2.6. MORE VERB GRAMMAR 85 2.5.5 Negative presence: I know that is not a verb, but the reason it’s in this list is because of , w ...
86 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR ...
Chapter 3 More grammar Having covered the basics in the previous chapter, we will revisit and elab- orate on certain inflections ...
88 CHAPTER 3. MORE GRAMMAR present polite is formed by adding to the , whereas the past polite is formed by taking the present p ...
3.1. REVISITS AND SIMPLE INFLECTIONS 89 adjectives inflect to show tense, rather than : adjective polite present polite past rul ...
90 CHAPTER 3. MORE GRAMMAR , and ”noun adjectives”, which are nouns denoting qualities or aspects, and are used in combination w ...
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