Showing posts with label beginner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beginner. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Guess what's inside.

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Out of the hundreds of characters even beginner nihongo students won't fail to spot the word for "clean".

Sunday, December 13, 2009

suki

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Japanese adjectives are divided into two, the i-adjectives and the na-adjectives.

I-adjectives are conjugated this way:
高い taka-i (basic form)
高くない taka-kunai (negative)
高かった taka-katta (past)
高く taka-ku (adverbial form)

While na-adjectives are conjugated this way:
好きだ suki da (basic form)
好き じゃない suki janai (negative)
好き だった suki datta (past)
好き に suki ni (adverbial)

But as we can see from the above scenes from "Cafe Relish ni Oide" the na-adjective suki is treated as an i-adjective.

Thus:
好き suki
好くない suki-kunai (negative)
好かった suki-katta (past)
好く suki-ku (adverbial)

Notice too that the okurigana "ki" き disappears during conjugation, eventhough it is still pronounced. Not exactly grammatically correct but I guess you can't stop language from changing.