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Japanese Grammar Tutorials

• Ageru あげる
• Basic statments of identity だ・です・じゃない・じゃありません
• Past tense statements of identity だった・でした・じゃなかった・じゃありませんでした
• Desu (older tutorial)　です
• Some basic verb inflections: hanasu and tsukuru
• Doko　どこ
• -nakereba narimasen　なければなりません
• darou / deshou だろう・でしょう
• kuru and iku
• The future tense in Japanese and the “non-past”
• Using no　の
• Conjugating する and 来る (plain/dictionary form)
• The present tense of the ですます体/ desumasutai form
• The past tense of the desumasutai form
• Forming the negative tenses of the desu-masu-tai form
• amari　あまり
• The -ba －ばform
• dai だい

• daroo / deshoo   だろう・でしょう

• -dasu －出す     

• demo でも

• doo どう

• -hajimeru 始める

• -hazu はず

• hoshii ほしい

• kore, sore, are これ、それ、あれ

• doko / koko / soko / asoko どこ・ここ・そこ・あそこ

• the てform of the copula

• nanika / dareka 何か・誰か

• いるand  ある and expressions of being

• Japanese verbal nouns and the many faces of する

• ikura 幾ら

• Japanese gerunds

• ikura...nai 　いくら　ない

• Large numbers in Japanese

• The particle を in a directional statement

• baai / 場合

• Using mai-　毎
• aida 間
• aida (ni)　間に
• Japanese verb categories  (ru, u, and irregular verbs)
• The negative form of the ru-verbs
• Conjugating the negative forms of the u-verbs
• Conjugating the past-positive forms of u-verbs (newer tutorial)
• Past Tense of u-verbs (older tutorial)
• The Motion Particle へ
• sareru される
• i-adjectives　
• The particle か
• Japanese pronouns
• te-ageru てあげる
• te-aru　てある
• mada まだ
• -ba yokatta-ばよかった
• dake だけ
• mou もう
• dake de naku 　だけでなく
• The particle de
• The particle ga が
• -garu がる
• goro ごろ
• goto ni ごとに

• hodo ほど

• Forming possessives with the particle の

• The particle の as “one”

• chigau / 違う

• Telling time in Japanese (basic)

• More time expressions: 午前・午後・半・夜

• hoo ga ii ほうがいい

• desu ↔ ni + aru / ni + iru です　↔　に＋ある ・　に＋いる

• no + soba / mae / temae / naka / ushiro / shita / ue + ni の＋（そば・前・手前・中・後ろ・下・上）＋に

• konna / sonna / anna / donna こんな・そんな・あんな・どんな

• The particle を as the causation of human emotion

• いる and ある and expressions of being

• The particle に in adverbs

• Introduction to Japanese adjectives

• Day of the week in Japanese

• Days of the month in Japanese

   

   

   

• There is  even more basic language content in the Basic Vocabulary,  Word Focus, and Kanji areas.

• Also see the Intermediate Japanese course. If you already know the basics, you might benefit from this section.

• For those of you interested in Japanese history and culture, please see the Everything Japanese Guide. This section is quite extensive, alphabetized for easy reference and expanding rapidly.