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Japanese Verb Myths: Part 1
The way to understanding Japan's full of lies. These lies are not intended to harm. The fact is that at first the lies seem natural and helpful. Help make your tongue feel "closer to our mother tongue (English, most likely). Unfortunately, knowledge more you try to stack on top of these lies, the more your house of learning resembles a home built on a sponge. Instead of helping these myths only make life more difficult.
At points, they can make you wonder: "Why I can not understand Japanese?" What is wrong with me? "I must be stupid." When I started taking a formal Japanese class a few months ago, I realized how damaging that "Lies friendly" can be. I realized that a classroom full of people who had completed almost three quarters of a textbook still could not conjugate verbs negative in a normal manner. I realized that it was difficult for my classmates, of course, to combine an adjective. It was more than simple memory slips - My classmates did not really understand how verbs worked. Although it had the advantage of a native Japanese teacher, and classroom talk time class, still seems to elude the basic verb.
I realized that the class progressed, my friends were victims of a series of myths that had fought well. These myths seem inherent in most learning materials for students. If you're not the type of person who looks at a volatility, and really search to find out why inconsistency is there, easy to drink in these lies, until they grow so big they make their way out of his brain, and are slipping into the night. .
So in the course of next week, I'll post up all the myths I've learned about Japanese verbs and how can overcome them. I hope you find useful.
Know Your verb! (Some myths about Japanese verbs as seen from a student in Japanese)
Desu = Is
If you think that "desu" = is, congratulations, you are about to defeat his first major Japanese myth.
I want to leave this clear:
DESU not mean it!
Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Desu is a word that has no equivalent in English. In short, it does what it is Telling more polite. This is exactly, word for word, what a Japanese friend told me.
Okay, but what about:
Kore desu wa Penu This is a pen. (This is possibly the stupidest sentence ever)
Desu is not mean in this sentence?
Now we come to true secret of desu. Sometimes Desu means is that if the last word in the sentence, and if not a more active verb at the end of his sentence. It is exactly the same as using the masu form of a verb to make a verb more polite (Masu Myth following defeat).
So why believe that desu = is giving me problems?
Because a lot of time, does not mean desu. Also, if you try to think of "desu" means "is" just what you are confused about really going on in a Sentance.
EG:
Kore wa nai ja Penu. This, a pen, it is not. (Occasional)
Kore wa ja nai desu Penu. This, a pen, is not (more polite - not normally heard, but grammatically correct and equivalent to arima Penu ja)
Penu wa Kore ja nai 'n desu. This, a pen, it is not. (I say this to explain something - see previous post: no da / no desu. Cortés. Having regard to many times.)
If you believe (like me) who ja nai means 'is not' and desu means 'is', the last two Sentance are a complete mind-twist.
Lit: This, a pen is not is ... WTF!
You may be convinced: well, something like that is just an exception to the rule, and storage. But if they are forced to memorize everything is an exception to the desu = is myth, eventually, you will quickly experiece desu burnout. We also really get into trouble when it meets the word means much closer is (what the Genki textbook calls the 'plain form' of desu, but call a format of desu is more of the "desu" = "Is" shit)
Da is (in the sense of "this is a pen ')
I say much more about that, because the word 'is' English is very different from 'is' in Japanese. Japan has a lot of different types of words to express existence. The most common meet are:
da, aru (inanimate objects exist), iru (animate objects exist)
Moreover, because they tend to abandon the redundant parts of the phrase in Japanese, sometimes the word 'is' is left entirely. Finally, the word 'is' is involved in all other verbs, depending on how they are combined (which is why it is not necessary to use a "be" verb mean, I'm going to the store - no Iru Mise ITTE) Let's get into that more as more myths are busted.
Hope this helps clarify points of confusion with desu / da.
Future myths broken: Masu Form (it is not the real deal) adjectives and verbs: One and the Same How to conjugate verbs and adjectives without sweating blood.
About the Author
Allyson Brandy is an avid Japanese student and fan of Japanese culture. Read more about Japanese grammer at her blog,
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