{"id":107,"date":"2006-06-13T01:09:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nihongo.3yen.com\/2006-04-28\/lesson-3-notes\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T01:09:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T16:09:18","slug":"lesson-3-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/lesson-3-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Lesson #3: Adjectives and the \u300c\u306e\u300d particle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginner Japanese Lesson #3<\/a>: Adjectives and the \u300c\u306e\u300d particle (length: 28:56) and original lesson details<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is the recording for the third beginner Skype lesson. You can subscribe to this podcast<\/a> with iTunes from the following link:<\/p>\n

Subscribe to this podcast with iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n

This time, you can tell it’s spring because of the background noises from the birds. Sorry about that and the big delay but I’ve been too lazy for various reasons. Details of the next beginner lesson and lesson date will be posted afterwards in another post. (For those of you who asked, yes, I’m still planning on doing more lessons.)<\/p>\n

Lesson Notes<\/h3>\n

To add to the previous lesson, the topic particle is not the subject like in English. There is no such thing as a subject in Japanese.<\/p>\n

It is only the topic and doesn’t have to be directly related to the rest of the sentence.
\nFor example, \u300c\u30ec\u30a4\u3055\u3093\u306f\u3001\u5b66\u6821\u3067\u3059\u3002\u300d doesn’t have to mean that the Ray-san is a school.<\/p>\n

Adjectives<\/h4>\n

So far, we have learned how to use \u300c\u5143\u6c17\u300d to describe how you are doing. I managed to cleverly hide the fact that \u300c\u5143\u6c17\u300d is an adjective. Actually, \u300c\u5143\u6c17\u300d can also be a noun but so far we have been using as an adjective as a description of your well-being.<\/p>\n

There are two types of adjectives: na-adjective and i-adjectives.<\/p>\n

Na-adjectives are almost the same as nouns as we have seen with \u300c\u5143\u6c17\u300d. The difference is that you can directly modify a noun by attaching it directly in front of the noun with a \u300c\u306a\u300d. (Hence the name)<\/p>\n

Examples<\/strong>
\n\uff11\uff0e\u6709\u540d\u306a\u4eba – famous person
\n\uff12\uff0e\u4fbf\u5229\u306a\u3068\u3053\u308d – convenient place<\/p>\n

The other type of adjective are called i-adjectives. They are called that because they end in the hiragana \u300c\u3044\u300d. Unlike the na-adjectives, they do not need anything to directly modify nouns. Just attach them to the front of the noun.<\/p>\n

Examples<\/strong>
\n\uff11\uff0e\u5e83\u3044\u90e8\u5c4b – wide room
\n\uff12\uff0e\u9762\u767d\u3044\u4eba – interesting person<\/p>\n

You may have noticed, some na-adjectives end in \u300c\u3044\u300d such as \u300c\u304d\u308c\u3044\u300d. You should pay careful attention to them. \u300c\u5acc\u3044\u300d is another example of a na-adjective that ends in \u300c\u3044\u300d.<\/p>\n

Negative Adjectives<\/strong>
\nAs we have seen, the negative for na-adjectives is the same as nouns. Just add \u300c\u3058\u3083\u306a\u3044\u300d.<\/p>\n

The conjugation rules for i-adjectives are slightly different from na-adjectives and nouns.
\nFor the negative tense, you first need to remove the last \u300c\u3044\u300d and attach \u300c\u304f\u306a\u3044\u300d.<\/p>\n

For the polite form, add \u300c\u3067\u3059\u300d at the end for both i-adjectives and na-adjectives.<\/p>\n

\u203bImportant Exception: \u3044\u3044\u3001\u304b\u3063\u3053\u3044\u3044<\/strong><\/p>\n

The original version of \u3044\u3044 was \u3088\u3044. As a result, all conjugations are based on \u3088\u3044 and not \u3044\u3044.<\/p>\n

The \u300c\u306e\u300d particle<\/h4>\n

One of the main functions of the \u300c\u306e\u300d particle (besides many others) is used to show ownership, same as the English word, “of”. However, the order is the possessor followed by \u300c\u306e\u300d followed by the possession.<\/p>\n

Examples<\/strong>
\nX\u3055\u3093\u306e\u90e8\u5c4b = room of X\u3055\u3093<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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