Profile PictureE-book
$10

Japanese Grammar Guide

Add to cart

Japanese Grammar Guide

$10

Japanese Grammar Guide

436 pages

#LearnJapanese

#JapaneseGrammar

#JapaneseGrammarBook

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Writing System

Hiragana

Katakana

Kanji

3. Basic Grammar

Expressing State-of-Being

Introduction to Particles (は、も、が)

Adjectives

Verb Basics

Negative Verbs

Past Tense

Particles used with verbs (を、に、へ、で)

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Descriptive Relative Clauses and Sentence Order

Noun-related Particles (と、や、とか、の)

Adverbs and Sentence-ending particles

4. Essential Grammar

Polite Form and Verb Stems (~です、~ます)

Addressing People

The Question Marker (か)

Compound Sentences (て-form、から、ので、のに、が、けど、し、~たりす

る)

Other uses of the te-form (~ている、~てある、~ておく、~ていく、~てく

る)

Potential Form

Using する and なる with the に particle (~[よう]になる/する)

Conditionals (と、なら、ば、たら)

Expressing "must" or "have to" (~だめ、~いけない、~ならない、~ても)

Desire and Suggestions (たい、欲しい、volitional、~たらどう)

Performing an action on a relative clause (と、って)

Defining and Describing (という)

Trying something out or attempting to do something (~てみる、volitional+とする)

Giving and Receiving (あげる、やる、くれる、もらう)

Making requests (~ください、~ちょうだい、~なさい、command form)

Numbers and Counting

Casual Patterns and Slang

Review and more sentence-ending particles

5. Special Expressions

Causative and Passive Verbs

Honorific and Humble Forms

Things that happen unintentionally (~てしまう、~ちゃう/~じゃう)

Special expressions with generic nouns (こと、ところ、もの)

Expressing various levels of certainty (かもしれない、でしょう、だろう)

Expressing amounts (だけ、のみ、しか、ばかり、すぎる、Amount+も、ほど、

さ)

Various ways to express similarity and hearsay (よう、~みたい、~そう、~そう

だ、~らしい、~っぽい)

Using 方 and よる for comparisons and other functions (より、の方、stem+方、に

よって、によると)

Saying something is easy or difficult to do (~やすい、~にくい)

More negative verbs (ないで、ず、~ん、ぬ)

Hypothesizing and Concluding (わけ、~とする)

Expressing time-specific actions (ばかり、とたんに、ながら、まくる)

Leaving something the way it is (まま、っぱなし)

6. Advanced Topics

Formal Expressions (である、ではない)

Things that should be a certain way (はず、べき、べく、べからず)

Expressing the minimum expectation (でさえ、ですら、おろか)

Showing signs of something (~がる、ばかり、~めく)

Formal expressions of non-feasibility (~ざるを得ない、やむを得ない、~かね

る)

Tendencies (~がち、~つつ、きらいがある)

Advanced Volitional (まい、であろう、かろう)

Covered by something (だらけ、まみれ、ずくめ)

Advanced proximity of actions (が早いか、や否や、そばから)

Others (思いきや、がてら、あげく)

Add to cart

Japanese Grammar Guide PDF File/ E-book

Size
1.76 MB
Length
436 pages