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  2. Japanese conjugation - Wikipedia

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    Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known as conjugation. In Japanese , the beginning of a word (the stem ) is preserved during conjugation, while the ending of the word is altered in some way to change the meaning (this is the ...

  3. File:AMB Japanese Verbs.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: Aeron Buchanan's Japanese Verb Chart: a concise summary of Japanese verb conjugation, handily formatted to fit onto one sheet of A4. Also includes irregulars, adjectives and confusing verbs. Also includes irregulars, adjectives and confusing verbs.

  4. Japanese pronouns - Wikipedia

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    Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at. The position of things (far away, nearby) and their role in the current interaction (goods, addresser, addressee , bystander) are features of the meaning ...

  5. Japanese grammar - Wikipedia

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    Verbs and adjectives being closely related is unusual from the perspective of English, but is a common case across languages generally, and one may consider Japanese adjectives as a kind of stative verb. Japanese vocabulary has a large layer of Chinese loanwords, nearly all of which go back more than one thousand years, yet virtually none of ...

  6. Japanese godan and ichidan verbs - Wikipedia

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    On the surface, this may seem like a problem that only affects conjugation patterns, since quinquegrade verbs and monograde verbs conjugate differently (See main article: Japanese verb conjugations). However there are many verbs that, despite having the same spelling, have different meanings and belong to different verb groups. For example:

  7. Kagoshima verb conjugations - Wikipedia

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    The verbal morphology of the Kagoshima dialects is heavily marked by numerous distinctive phonological processes, as well as both morphological and lexical differences.The following article deals primarily with the changes and differences affecting the verb conjugations of the central Kagoshima dialect, spoken throughout most of the mainland and especially around Kagoshima City, though notes ...

  8. Gojūon - Wikipedia

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    In the Japanese language, the gojūon (五十音, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡo(d)ʑɯꜜːoɴ], lit. "fifty sounds") is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order. The "fifty" (gojū) in its name refers to the 5×10 grid in which the characters are displayed.

  9. Talk:Japanese conjugation - Wikipedia

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    To be clear, these functions don't modify the verbs in English and instead use separate words in addition to the regular English verb, whereas Japanese verbs conjugate to form these functions. Fifthly, Aeron Buchanan's Japanese Verb Chart at the start of the article fulfils exactly what the proposed summary tables seek to convey. So the summary ...