Japanese grammar daily dozen

A. Past tense of a Japanese verb –
1. Verb (base TA) or
2. Verb (base II) + mashita

Tabeta – I ate (verb taberu in base TA – tabeta, past tense of eat)
Tabemashita (verb taberu in base II + mashita – tabemashita to have eaten


Base TA + TOKI NI
Past tense when i verbed where when = 24:00hours

1. KANJITA TOKI NI – when I felt it kanjiru in past tense

Base TE + kara – after having verbed

1. Tabete kara aisu kurimu (ice cream) o itadaite mo ii kashira?

Base TA + ra – if you had ‘verb’ed ittara wakaru deshô. If you had gone with us you would know. (but since you didn’t you don’t) used sarcastically.

Base IV + BA – if verb

1. ikeba –if you go (verb iku into base IV ike + ba)

a. tabeba, tabereba, taberu nara, taberu naraba, tabettara, taberu to^ shitara all other ways of saying if I ate

2. asobeba – . . . if I play. . .


Base (tsu)TA + RA = conditional if you were to verb,

ITTARA – supposing you went
ASONDARA – if you were to play
TABETTARA – if you were to eat implying, ‘then what. . . ?’

The (tsu)

Base TA + TOTAN NI
Never used so… as far as I was listening

Base TE + IRU – The Japanese Gerund; in the act of verb-ing, same as adding “ing” to an English verb.

P.F. + n’ ja nai?

P.F. +
P.F + nai n’ ja nai -

Ex. 1. ikanai n’ janai?
Ex. 2. sawaranai n’ janakatta?


P.F. + koto ga dekiru

1. Iku koto ga dekiru yô ni narimashita.

P.F. yo^ ni ~ - to appear as if, to accelerate the process, to corroborate through to see the verb finish,

P.F. + KOTO GA ARU – Have you ever P.F., have you ever p.f.’ed before

P.F. + HO^ GA II DESU

1.

P.F. + TOKI NI – Hawaii shu^ ni itta toki ni o-oyogi wo takusan shita.

Verb (base TA) + HÔ GA II DESU. – You should verb.

However this bunpo goes much deeper than just coming out to mean you should verb. Let’s try this again by putting illustration numbers next to each part of the sentence so that

1. itta hô ga ii deshô

2. tabeta hô ga ii desu. - It’s best to eat or you should eat

a. Meaning you had better eat, or it would be better to eat (than not eat) or you should eat.
You can change the ii for any positive or negative emotive adjective
Just like our next bunpo kawari ni you just place

Noun, adjective no kawari ni – instead of noun, adjective

P.F. + tokoro desu. I’m in that place right now, we are in the middle of (P.F.)ing right now

Japanese: Hideki calls to Hiroko, and asks her,
“Ima, nani shite iru?”
To which she replies,
“Ima? Tabete iru tokoro desu.”

English: We just started eating home-child Or
We are eating right now homie yo wassup! This can be literally translated to give you a good sense of the meaning. Eating place is where we at!

Base TE + mo ii desu. – even though I verb, even if I verb it’s ok, or alright or May I verb?

Base TE + mo ii desu ka? Question form of , “Would it be ok for me to verb?” Although I go to the bathroom would that be Ok? O-te-arai ni itte mo ii desu ka? In other words ,”May I go to the bathroom?”