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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Writing System
- Basic Grammar
- 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
- 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)
- Using Quotations (と、って)
- Defining and Describing (という)
- Trying or attempting 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
- Wrapping up section 4 and more gobi
- 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)
- 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)
- Miscellaneous
- Index
Links
My Links
- Japanese Grammar Guide Forum - If there is anything you would like to see addressed or added to the guide, go to the forum to post your ideas!
- 3yen - I write random and hopefully informative stuff about things related to learning Japanese here.
Other Links
- Jim Breens' WWWJDIC - Probably the definitive Japanese/English dictionary on the web. A great tool to learn Japanese with.
- 英辞郎 - Another great dictionary that I use when WWWJDIC lets me down
- Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials - These are free-to-use online materials developed to help people study Japanese.
- About.com Japanese Forum - A very active forum about Japanese.
- Japanese Grammar Database - A dictionary-style approach to grammar. Covers more grammar than any book I've seen in the US.
- frezell.org - Contains links to free programs to learn hiragana and katakana.
- Yahoo!チャット - Chat in Japanese! Even has voice chat, even though I don't know how well it'll work in the US.