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Do I have a good grasp on the basics of what the continuative form is?
連用形 (usually translated as "continuative form") is one of "the basic 6 conjugation forms" of Japanese verbs/adjectives. For the ichidan verb 食べる, its 連用形 is 食べ. For godan verbs, many of them have two ...
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Which of these sentences are correct?
読みはしない: Correct. This is how you can add a contrastive-wa to a verb.
買いはするが、読みはしない。
I'll buy it, but won't read it.
読みもしない: Correct. "don't even read".
彼は本を買っても読みもしない。
He buys books, but ...
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Are questions ending in は polite or plain?
As the first answer points out, all of your examples are already polite, but it's because the use of honorific prefixes.
As I originally wrote in that first answer's comments, another situation where ...
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Are questions ending in は polite or plain?
This is already polite because of the use the prefix お.
This is similar to お[名前]{なまえ}は or お[誕生日]{たんじょうび}は. "What's your name?", "When is your birthday?"
ご[出身]{しゅっしん}は ("where ...
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How would you form the comparative of an adjective?
「Aは Bより adjです」means "A is more (adj) than B".
For example:
Aさんは Bさんより わかいです。
A is younger than B.
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What is the plain form (普通形) of どうでした? Is it どうだった or just どう? And is the plain form of Vてください just て?
どうでした?
どうだった?
How was it? / Did it go well?
Yes, Sentence 2 is an informal/casual equivalent of 1. Just saying "どう?" would change the meaning ("How is it? / Is it going well?") ...
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「脱ぎますか」 as 許可求め・申し出
She is definitely not asking for permission. She is not particularly offering to do something for the man, either. It’s more like asking what is supposed to happen next, according to his rules, ...
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When to use verb ます vs plain form
First, 遊び is actually a noun, not a verb. It is formed from the verbal root. There is a group of nouns in Japanese which is derived from the root and uses this form (continuative form) as a standalone ...
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Is the grammar of いただき in continuative form [連用形] or in dialectical imperative form
I don't know that song, but I think it is a pun. In kansai, people uses ”～しまんで！” instead of ”～しますよ”. So it is a pun on the words ”飲ませていただきまんで！” and ”飲ませていただきマンデー(Monday)”.
Therefore, the meaning is ”...
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use of ば + って in a sentence
Yes, with the previous verb 後悔する, I'm very sure that ～ばよかった is intended here.
Although Japanese has a wide variety of idiomatic omission after conditionals, the existence of ～ておく (しとければ < しておければ) ...
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「脱ぎますか」 as 許可求め・申し出
Of the two, it can be considered as a 申し出 and 脱ぎましょうか is okay.
Roughly, I think it is like saying Do I...? instead of Shall I...? although Do I ...? is much less common.
That said, using ーますか? as a ...
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歩いてた what is form of verb?
「歩いてた」is nothing but the casual contraction of 歩いていた which is「歩く」in past「ている」form.
Here are more useful contractions:
「ている」->「てる」->「てん」
「ていた」->「てた」
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When to use verb ます vs plain form
As others have pointed out, please don't refer to 遊び as "ます form" - it's not that if it doesn't actually end in ます.
Both 遊び and 遊ぶこと/遊ぶの are noun forms of 遊ぶ, and in most cases both can even be ...
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