Questions tagged [conjugations]
活用. The inflections of verbs and adjectives. How the endings of verbs and adjectives change to reflect grammatical factors such as tense and aspect.
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Steve Kaufman says 勉強するな to mean don't study. Why not say 勉強しない?
So in this video: https://youtu.be/oFXqrmfi_SU
Steve Kaufmann talks about not studying the basics in English but he says するな instead of しない is this allowed?
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Ichidan verb potential form conjugations
I'm having some confusion on the potential form of Japanese verbs, specifically ichidan verbs. The sources I'm using for my learning tell me that I should replace 'ru' with 'rareru' or 'rarenai' (...
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Why is いる in いらせらる conjugated いら, in 未然形, instead of 入り?
いらせらる consists of いる and せらる, the passive of suru I think, so why is it in 未然形? Usually, if a verb is and can be paired with する, it'd be in continuative form, so you'd say things like 入りもしない、 or ...
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Why is 会える conjugated as 会えなくなった?
So I kept searching on the net about 会える conjugation but nothing comes up. Why is its past negative conjugated as なくなった? I heard this on an anime by the way and wondered why it wasn't written as ...
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The causative form in a verb after another in 連用形
When do verbs in causative verbs affect the verbs before them? Like if you say 雨は花を食い溺らす (made up term), does the rain eat at the flowers and drown them, or feed them too much and drown them? Like if ...
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How do the "Godan verb with u ending (special class)" verbs differ from regular u ending verbs?
I came across a new word for me, 問{と}う (to ask, to inquire). I looked it up in the dictionary and it appears to be of a special class according to jisho.org. Other verbs listed under this category are ...
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Negative-imperative for 形容動詞 and 形容詞
For verbs, we can use it's te-form to make imperatives and negative imperatives, such as:
走って！ 走らないで！
Run! Do not run!
Of course there's also 走れ！ and 走るな！
For 形容動詞 and 形容詞, however, I realize that I ...
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Help understanding tense of sentence ending in ~てもらってて
When you conjugate both ~てもらう and いる to the て form ~てもらってて, what does that do to the tense?
Example sentence: おばあちゃんに録ってもらってて。
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Why is the れる conjugation sometimes combined with て?
Whenever I'm looking at Japanese there are times where I notice the れる conjugation is cut off. As an example, instead of する turning into される, it changes to されて. From what I know, れる is a past tense so ...
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〜たら for the perfect aspect / completed actions / resultative state
This is something I've noticed for a while but I want to be sure of it. I just encountered the sentence “準備したらおいで。” in context I'm fairly sure this means “Come when you're ready.” and I've encountered ...
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meaning of ちゃってる / chatteiru
As far as I know, the sentence "入っちゃってる自分の世界" translates to something like "I'm deep in my own world" or maybe "I went deep into my own world".
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how did 二段 verbs shift into 一段?
How was the process? i know that in 鎌倉時代, the 終止形 and 連体形 started to be used interchangeably + only the 連体形 form survived and replaced the 終止形.
But here is where i get lost, lets say the classical 下二段 ...
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Confused about this conjugation of 忘れる [duplicate]
In KICK BACK, there is a line of the song that goes なんか忘れちゃってんだ. I'm confused specifically about the 忘れちゃってんだ. I haven't really seen this sort of conjugation before. I'm thinking it's possibly 忘れる + ...
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Conjugation of the Auxiliary Verb 得る When it's Read as うる
I didn't see any other threads addressing this.
I'm learning 得る as an auxiliary verb to express possibility, as in 起こり得る (起こりえる). From what I've read, 得る is typically read as うる if it follows the 連用形 ...
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完成した vs. 完成している state of suru noun
I don't grasp the difference between this two sentences :
私のデザインが完成した。
私のデザインが完成している。
Do the former mean “My design is finished ?” and the latter “My design is being finished “ ? Or the latter is ...
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What does し of されし means？
I was playing hollow knight and a character said "愛されし王のために", i searched and found out that し is a conjugation of an aulixiary that means past and it was used in classical japanese, but i ...
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What is the meaning of 書く (書かそう) in this obscure conjugation?
This is a quote I found from Kokoro Connect Ep. 1 @7:01
Context: Inaba asks Iori what types of material they should put in their school newspaper. Iori goes on to suggest they include explicit ...
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Weird inflection of the verb in ta form - たれた
I'm a beginner in Japanese; and as an exercise I've tried to translate a sentence from the LN. While I do realize that I've bit more that I can chew, I wish to at least try :)
The sentence that I am ...
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遅刻している vs 遅刻する for saying "I am late."
I'm trying to figure out if I should use 遅刻する or 遅刻している for expressing "I am late to..."
For example, I was thinking, 仕事初日に遅刻しているだけじゃなく、迷子になってしまった。"Not only am I late to my first day on ...
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Translation help, 思う vs 思っている when the subject of the sentence is the speaker
I'm working on a translation for a comic and I'm kind of stumped on this one line. The specific context is the character talking to herself and musing about what someone else thinks of her, the line ...
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かる・しかる-連体形 cant follow nouns?
i was reading something about adjectives on https://www.imabi.net/
and as i was reading, i came across this sentence, the なる-連体形 may follow nominals whereas the かる・しかる-連体形 cannot. is there something ...
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Do the passive forms of godan verbs have any sense of potentiality?
According to this answer https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/60055/55243
both the passive and potential sense of ichidan verbs derive from the root sense of "without someone's will".
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Which of these sentences are correct?
1 読みはしない
2 読みもしない
3 読みをしない
4 お読みしない
5 読みしない
6 読むことをしない
7 読むことなんてしない
I used the verb 読む for no particular reason. Can someone confirm which of these sentences have correct grammar?
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What kind of conjugation is 愛せない?
I came across 愛せない in an example sentence in 新英和大辞典第５版 (under the entry 失格).
自分の子供を愛せないなんて母親失格だと思う。
I don't think anyone who doesn't love her own child deserves the name of a mother.
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Can I conjugate 〜もの into れんしゅうする to make れんしゅうもの？ Trying to make "basketball practice", does "バスケットボールのれんしゅうもの" work?
Can I conjugate 〜もの into れんしゅうする to make れんしゅうもの？ Trying to make "basketball practice", does "バスケットボールのれんしゅうもの" work?
And for future reference, can 〜もの be conjugated into any verb ...
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Why can't 連体形 verbs be in the past tense?
While reading IMABI's entry on まで, I saw the following table:
Here the 連体形, or the attributive form of a Japanese verb, is characterized as being "non-past". This resource states:
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Do I understand the conjugation 散りぬれど correctly?
I'm trying to make sense of the lyrics to "I'm Nobody" by Showtaro Morikubo, particularly this line:
Don't know why... 映ろう景色に散りぬれど
居場所が無いなら
暴いてみろ進化論
I've tried to find an explanation of ...
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Omitting the する after a する verb in formal writing
In reading several Japanese websites detailing how to write a Japanese resume, I ran across a pattern I found curious. There would be a sentence ending in a する verb used as a verb (i.e. with particles ...
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Strange conjugation of 煎る ー is it an irregular verb?
I looked up いる in the OJAD Pitch Accent Dictionary, which shows every verb conjugation and the pitch accent of each conjugation. 要る and 入る, and 居る and 射る were conjugated as I would have expected, as ...
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All conjugation groups of verbs
I believe most learners of Japanese were taught that the verbs of the language are classified into 3 groups:
Group 1 / Godan Verbs ([五段動詞]【ごだんどうし】);
Group 2 / Ichidan Verbs ([一段動詞]【いちだんどうし】);
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How are actor nouns formed from verbs
Are there general rules for forming nouns that refer to the one performing the action of a verb, such as cut -> cutter, run -> runner, "Jack the Ripper", etc.? I have been searching ...
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Causative use for the verb 習う (sense of achievement)
I learnt here that "the causative せる lends a sense of achievement or overcoming hardship to finish something".
My question is: is it common for Japanese students to use the causative form of ...
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What is the difference between してはいない and していない
What is the difference between してはいない and していない?
NOTE: This post is inspired by this one, which touched upon this topic (though I never felt like a definitive or clear answer was provided).
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What does the "ら" mean in the sentence "明日は雪降ら"
I was reading the manga サマータイムレンダ and was wondering what the "ら" in "明日は雪降ら" mean and come from, most of the characters are speaking 関西弁 so my main theory was to think that it's ...
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What is the conjugation of the action verb in the [doing something is easy/hard] pattern?
I can read here and here that 易い and 難い are added to the "stem of the verb", but I don't really see how the examples I can find then match this rule.
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Honorific Verbs conjugation - ～ていらっしゃる vs お + Verb Stem + になる
In book "Genki II", there's no explanation for verbs that don't have a special conjugation, for when to conjugate either to:
「て Form」 + いらっしゃる
お + Verb Stem + になる
My simple question is ...
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What role is the い playing in "している"?
The sentence
トニーはいい声をしている。
apparently translates to
Tony's voice is nice.
Question: The verb "している", according to jpdb.io, is the て continuous conjugation of する. But when I look up the て ...
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How can I break down the grammar of 黙って待ってろってのか?
I am reading a manga and came across the following sentence
このまま俺ら妖魔のエサになるを黙って待ってろってのか
I can sort of make sense of what the meaning is. Something along the lines of "In this situation should we ...
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How does reduplication of words work in Japanese?
Recently I've heard words like ただただ and ゆっくりゆっくり showing up. I guessed that saying adverbs one more time over again puts more emphasis on them, but I'm not at all sure if that's true. (Always means ...
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Is くれ the short form for くれる?
In the following sentence:
ペンを貸してくれ。
Is くれ the short form for くれる?
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Is there a way to conjucate transitive verbs to intransitive verbs ? or a pattern to use? [duplicate]
In the last lesson I had in my Japanese course, we learned about transitive verbs & intransitive verbs.
In the Genki II book, there's no explanation as to how a verb is transformed from transitive ...
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Why use ran in 母さんは 逃げらんなかったんだって
I saw this sentence in an episode of Attack on Titan where a character says
逃げらんなかったんだって
why does the speaker say
逃げらんなかったんだって
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逃げらなかったんだって
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Understanding the conjugation 危のう
「わかってる」
くどいほどに念を押す少女に、苦笑して応じた。
けれどフレデリカはその答えにこそ苦笑する。
「わかっておらぬ。……その時は、危のうなったら無理をせず退くが良い」
見下ろした先、フレデリカはこちらを見ない。
「忘れておったのだ。──人はたやすく死ぬのじゃな。どれほど先を望んでいても」
86─エイティシックス─Ep.2 ─ラン・スルー・ザ・バトルフロント─〈上〉
安里アサト
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Meaning of ご帰還あそばれなされた [duplicate]
Full sentence:
「俺様がご帰還あそばれなされたぞ！」
I think this sentence means something alike to: "I have returned!"
My main problem with this sentence is the usage of あそばれなされた.
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What is 「おけなかった」in this sentence? 『風紀を乱しまくる私たちを 野放しにしておけなかったんだ』
I came across this sentence in a show I was watching and I have no idea what to make of it
風紀を乱しまくる私たちを 野放しにしておけなかったんだ
What is 「おけなかった」in this sentence?
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Does 悍ましい derive from a verb?
So I'm confused about おぞましい, because in 悍ましい, there's おくりがな. Atleast I'm sure of it, and as far as I know, おくりがな is added to a verb. So, I'd think that the ま in 悍ましい、is from the irrealis form of a ...
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そう、こう、ああ、どう confusion
So, I am confused with the こそあど adverbs. I saw そういう in a song used like this. 博愛とか慈愛とかそういうの大切に扱ってよ。I am confused about the sentence 博愛とか慈愛とかそういうの. Does it literally mean "the thing that is felt (...
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Meaning of 課せられた
Reading the definition of 任務 from 明鏡国語辞典, I found:
その人に課せられた、果たさなくてはならないつとめ。
This seems like 課す (which means to impose a task or tax) in potential and passive form, but I dont understand who it is ...
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Can よ from volitional form be dropped? Heres some context
Recently, I saw this in a Hinative answer.
使うとするなら
I know that とする means to "try to" and なら means if so I'm guessing it means if try to use, but why not use 使おうとするなら? This brings up the ...
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Do all verbs become Ichidan once in their Potential Form?
Question again from 君の名は manga:
“夢だけでも、男の子になれたらなぁ”
I'm unsure about my understanding of the verb conjugation.. is this the potential form of なる plus the conditional form ~たら.. ? Checking the rules to ...
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