Japanese Grammatical Terms
Japanese Grammatical Terms |
Really these terms are not too important but they can help the learner understand grammatical concepts from Japanese books and when asking a grammar question to a Japanese person...
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| 日本語 / ENGLISH - Examples in Blue |
| IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE: (maybe)
名詞 meishi - noun (猫 neko cat, 本 hon book, 飛行機 hikouki plane...) 動詞 doushi - verb (食べる taberu to eat, 考える kangaeru to think, 話す hanasu to speak...) 形容詞 keiyoushi - adjective (青い aoi blue, かわいい kawaii cute, きれい kirei beautiful...) 副詞 fukushi - adverb ~形 ~kei - ~form (て形 te-form, ない形 nai-form (negative form), ます形 masu-form...) 代名詞 daimeishi - pronoun (彼 kare he, 彼ら karera they, あなた anata you) 人称代名詞 ninshou daimeishi - personal pronoun 自動詞 jidoushi - intransitive verb 他動詞 tadoushi - transitive verb 可能動詞 kanou doushi - potential verb 状態動詞 joutai doushi - stative verb 助詞 joshi - particle 使役 shieki - causative (~seru or ~saseru) 受け身 ukemi - passive (~reru or ~rareru) |
