60 CHAPTER 2. VERB GRAMMAR
Recycling our example sentence from the present tense section, we
get the following sentences:
Today (I) don’t/won’t walk.
(I) don’t/wont’ watch TV.
This isn’t expensive.
However, please note that this rule does not apply to the special
verb , which we shall treat in the next section. Rather than becoming
, it is simply replaced with.
(On a final note, it is imperative this should never be confused
with another adjective pronounced , , as it means ”deceased”)
2.1.3 Basic inflections for irregular verbs and verbal adjec-
tives
There are three irregular verbs in Japanese that we need to look at be-
fore moving on to further inflections, being , ”do”/”decide on”,
,
”come” and , ”exist” (forinanimatethings).
The irregular verb
Looking at first, we see the following bases and inflection table
base form
, ,
( ), ( ),
affirmative negative
plain ” ” + :
We see that actually has three different forms, as well as
three different forms - which of these gets used is fully determined