New video that simplifies 60% of Japanese Grammar with 1 pattern (like ている、ていく、てくる、ては、ても、etc), check it out now!: th-cam.com/video/a5HHq0HZbkM/w-d-xo.html . This video took 3 months of writing, 2 weeks of editing, and 2 hospital trips to make. . If you found this video helpful or enlightening in any way, please leave a comment letting me know and subscribe if you would like to see more! . I will also be responding to any comments or questions on this video but if you would like to reach out to me directly, just ping me on the Discord server: discord.gg/deg7eBq
@@UCantNinjaMe Got covid 3 months ago which sent me to the hospital the first time. . Then for the next 2.5 months my asthma got aggravated and I couldn't walk, speak, or breathe properly without wheezing (see here: th-cam.com/video/jO-MsyOCpr0/w-d-xo.html ) . After I finally recovered and recorded this video, I got one of the worse cases of food poisoning I've ever gotten. Hospital again. . Still currently suffering from the food poisoning, it's been like 2 weeks. 🤪🤪 . Glad you enjoyed the video! 😂
Great video, but I hate the title. A cheat sheet is usually something that can be easily referenced and contained into a small form factor. Calling this video a cheat sheet is pretty disingenuous. Again, video is good, it's just not a cheat sheet in any sense of the word.
Oh god, 13 minutes of overwhelming grammar rules. This is gonna take me a while to get adjusted, considering my reading speed is equal to a kid who's favorite crayon color flavor is みどり.
The single rule can be easily summarized into 1 sentence: There are only 5 verb conjugations in Japanese, and the purpose of conjugations is not to change the meaning of the verb, but to allow you to attach the appropriate helpers. There are no complex rules and hundreds for forms, just one simple sentence. 😉
You don’t actually need to learn the rules like this to speak and understand Japanese. That’s not to say it isn’t potentially helpful, but you will notice the patterns after enough exposure to the language. Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive, so you’ll have a much better time letting grammar rules explain what you’ve already noticed than you will trying to figure out how to say things with a scrabble bag of words and rules.
@@Austpie While we're on the topic of grammar, you made an grammatical mistake in English. "Doing" is a conjugation of "to be," and, as a verb, any descriptors must be adverbs, not adjectives. You are doing well, not good. I will not address your capitalization and punctuation.
The editing of this video is just INSANELY GOOD, so funny as well. The content couldn't be better. Cure Dolly surely is somewhere very proud of you! Please never delete this channel!!
You make learning Japanese look so easy by explaining everything so clearly without missing a step, I can tell you really put a lot of effort into making your videos and you are so informative but underrated alongside with cure dolly sensei
I make it look easy because it really is easy! At this point I'm kinda convinced that textbooks intentionally makes things harder so you end up buying more textbooks 😂 . Glad you enjoyed the video and found it informative! I'll keep doing my best to carrying on Dolly Sensei's work!
Where has this video been all of my life? HOLY CRAP I cant stop thinking about words Ive heard now over years of studying with slow growth. I learned so much more in this 13 min video.
I can genuinely say, that after two months of studying Japanese for hours every day - I did not quite understand conjugations until now - and suddenly I feel like I know them very well. This is a fuckin' excellent video.
Very glad I was able to condense this information into an easily digestible package that cleared up 2 months of confusion for you! Thanks for watching and commenting!
This is such an underrated video! I am a Japanese learner from Taiwan, and I've been learning Japanese for months now. Not even halfway through the video, I am already subscribed and am surprised by how few the likes and subscribe count are. My native language is Mandarin Chinese, which means I have a huge advantage in recognizing the kanji characters since the writing system of my native language is entirely based on such a system. I've been watching a lot of videos to teach myself Japanese; some of them are taught in Chinese, some are in English, and this video is one of the best tutorial videos by far, simplifying the rather complicated conjugation rules for beginners. I also find it extremely useful that this video directly uses kanji instead of hiragana letters, which oversimplifies the writing system for a learner like me who is already familiar with the characters. I feel so grateful that I've come across this video and was randomly recommended by the TH-cam algorithm. Keep up the good work! Now that I've come across this video, I'd be binge-watching some of your other videos. Your channel deserves more views and subscribers.
Thank you for taking the time to write such a nice comment! We actually have a similar background as I'm from Hong Kong and learned Chinese first (except I'm not fluent in Chinese and can't even read basic stuff like menus). . One note is that the conjugation rules really aren't complicated at all- the system showcased in this video is the system that Japanese natives use and is very simple. The only reason it seems complex is because textbooks intentionally make things harder by ignoring native systems and coming up with their own random stuff. . Very glad the YT algorithm brought you here too! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I loved how you paid homage to Cure Dolly sensei with the explanation in the form of engines and the correct translations and "lego like structure" and two of her videos recommended, may she rest in peace.
@@santiagovidal4497I mean not similar, it literally was just cure dolly’s explanation. I will say he did a good job in condensing the information to be a lot more efficient.
I didn't learn this way but rather immersed Japanese watching anime and still a beginner (advanced) in Japanese, but this video is a gold mine, and I agree with all of these explanations in this video. Because after immersing I already know / expect how verb is going to change for different purposes and this video explained these rules in a brilliant way.
How interesting! Finnish is actually very similar, you add different endings to a verb to give it a new/different meaning. This video was very helpful, thank you!
Finally someone undusting the teaching of Cure Dolly (RIP), I'm glad that this way of learning Japanese grammar is spreading. (Julien Fontanier, a french TH-cam-teacher also seem to work this way, although he didn't fully uncovered the scheme yet) But atm you're like the third person that I know in the TH-cam game explaining the Japanese grammar like this.
Had to revisit this over a couple of weeks to fully absorb and apply it but thank you so much! The lego block analogy puts it into a much more digestible format too
The funny thing is that the "traditional" way is just some random method that was made up, the method shown in this video is what Japanese natives actually use so technically this IS the "traditional" method 😂 Glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I can’t thank you enough, this is exactly what I needed. I’ve been stuck as a beginner without making much progress because I couldn’t wrap my head around sentence structure. I especially appreciate learning more about the actual Japanese way to understand Japanese grammar. I’m excited to watch the rest of your videos!
Glad you enjoyed it and found it useful! It really means a lot when people recognize Dolly Sensei in my videos, means I'm doing my work of continuing her legacy right!
I can tell I'm officially old since I find this rapid fire editing and pacing style very difficult to follow. The content is so nice, though! If you cut the sound effects by 90% and increased the runtime by 100% to let each topic breathe a bit, I think it would be much more useful. But everyone else seems to be just happy with it, so I'll see myself out and into the nursing home. Oh, for future videos, my other suggestion would be to pronounce あ like the Japanese vowel instead of the English letter A, since it sounds like you're saying え, especially since you used the Japanese pronunciation for every other vowel.
Another oldie here. Yes! I might have absorbed *some* of this if it had been half as fast, without whooshing sounds, and without anime clips. As it was, my brain just slowly closed itself into a shell.
I agree with you. Too bad this video could be very good from a learning point of view. However, too fast, too many concepts and too much information every few seconds. Not to mention the high amount of unnecessary anime clips that don't really help to understand the explanations provided. Unfortunatelly, playing it at .75x (or less) doesn't work for me.
I agree even though I'm only in HS. I am making videos recording my own Japanese journey and teaching and sharing resources along the way in a much slower and easy to follow style. No super fast edits, no over the top SFX. I'm still new to yt so they are not the best so far but I'm working on it 💪. New video dropping in a few days too so look out for it
This is by far the best explanation I’ve seen of verb conjugation, it finally makes sense. I really struggled with it but I’ve just been looking at it the wrong way this whole time. 本当にありがとうございます
This is how I explain the verb conjugation to people struggling. When I was in high school, I graduated in 2012, and learning Japanese, this is the patterned I learned before my Sensei challenged me Kokugo. Great, editing and Video. I will recommend this to those who need a visual understanding as well.
This video is pure gold for someone like me who has been confused for a while by the J verbs. Thank you JouzuJuls san so much for making this informative and animated tutorial. Best one on TH-cam.
On the topic of xたい while "I want to drink x" sure is an understandable translation not mentioning the fact that the true meaning is actually that something is "want to drink" inducing is probably harmful in the long run. It's an adjective not a verb. Edit: you did touch on it in the end but I feel like it wasn't quite satisfactory, which you yourself probably realised as well therefore linking to another video. overall great video, I love seeing cure dolly style shit getting the recognition it deserves.
Your video is insane, it's very comprehensive and easy to see the overview of Japanese Verb Confugation. This one is really CHEAT SHEET. I really like the way you explain it. Thank youuu
You confirmed and untangled so many things that I've been guessing at for a long time, a lot of this logic was faintly swirling in the back of my brain. It didn't all soak in in the first watch but feels like I have something to grab onto now
The fact that I took nearly one year of Japanese lessons online to learn a fraction of the grammar knowledge dump you put in this video is insane. A lot of this stuff I had started picking up naturally, but as I watch your video it all clicks and makes even more sense.
during this video I wanted to quit SO much but your edit it's SO insanely good I've actually watched the entire video! 🤣 I can't believe japanese could be this particular, but I just can't stop loving it! domo arigatou!
(a bit more about the _flaw_ of 未然形) the -O form only take the single auxiliary verb う (-u), because there was no such thing as -O form. -u comes from a classical auxiliary verb む (-mu), which takes the -A form, and the sound change happened. for consonant-stem (五段) verbs, 書かむ /-amu/ > 書かう /-au/ > 書こう /-o:/ and for vowel-stem (一段) verbs, 見む /-imu/ > 見う /-iu/ > /-jo:/ > 見よう /-ijo:/
this went way over my head, as i am just beginning my learning journey, but it also filled me with so much excitement to keep learning one day at a time
I just want to say that was really helpful. For months of either learning how to speak from listenings or learning vocabulary it was always presented as separate verbs for 'to drink' 'to want to drink' 'to make someone drink' etc. (to show and to be shown sth). The way You presented it as actual single verb + another helping verb + another helping verb makes it look so plain simple and especially logical. Thank You.
This is the 4th year of learning Japanese at school as an extra-curricular activity, and I didn’t know you should look at 飲みます as 飲み+ます Thanks for the video, I found three other interesting and possibly helpful vids that I’m gonna watch tomorrow, you earned my sub! :)
I can't believe I started learning Japanese and fell in love with Mahjong either 😂 . Glad to have you on board mate! Thanks for watching and commenting!
As someone whos working on conjugation right now, having this show up in my timeline has been an absolute blessing. That just made everything SO much easier to understand!
9:54 This section completely blew my mind of how systematic and logical conjugations are. It’s a eureka moment that I rarely get from learning Japanese, so thank you so much!! One question though, is there a set order to go through when we do this process of conjugating in a lego-like manner? And if so, what is the order to do that?
Tae Kim does not teach it the way it is taught in this video, nor does he teach it how Japanese people perceive it. Most people who use Tae Kim get a feeling like they understand bits of Japanese, use it in real life- and get confused If they then push through, they'll eventually get the gist of it anyway- but then give credit back to Tae Kim for explaining things "logically" When you ask people what exactly the logic of Tae Kim was, few are able to give a detailed answer, because Tae Kim's fundamental explanation of Japanese is not logical. Those who do give a detailed answer often logically describe Japanese in a way that Tae Kim does not- or simply have lots of flaws in their description. Please watch this for more: th-cam.com/video/-JuHi-yKGFc/w-d-xo.html
I’ve been self studying Japanese for around 10 years now and when I finally got to take courses in college, I was extremely disappointed with how easy it was for me and how they taught it. It was through Genki and they heavily emphasized drill sentences. They would give us a sentence and then have us rewrite its “format” but just with one or two different words. They also taught conjugation in the way you disapprove of (for example, when they taught us short form, they did it like this: “飲む->飲みます->飲み”. But I learned how to conjugate the exact way you describe in the video (which was really helpful thank you!). I didn’t fully realize though that verb conjugations literally just go through the vowels and I love the way you explained it. Thank you so so much for making this video!!
Wow - this makes way too much sense. Why have I wasted the past 5 years with the unnecessarily difficult textbook method?! They teach the same thing, but THIS way is so much easier to understand and remember! It almost seems like Japanese kids would be taught this way, since they don't have to learn through the filter of English grammar rules... You have a unique ability to be both thorough and concise - which is not an easy thing to do. Thank you for this, and I look forward to diving into more of your videos!
"Seems like Japanese kids would be taught this way" because they basically are. I've only tweaked stuff a little bit like the detail about the 未然形 (which even Japanese people will agree is a good change). Really makes you wonder why textbooks for foreigners DON'T teach it this way huh! Thank you very much for watching and commenting, glad you enjoyed the video!
If anyone watching this is a beginner and it's too fast/doesn't make sense, don't be discouraged! When you learn Japanese, it takes a lot of time just to absorb the grammar forms, vocabulary, and different uses. It's difficult to understand how everything fits together if you don't even know what half the things mean or how they're used. That said, it's still good to watch stuff like this and expose yourself to the concepts. Just be patient and don't be in too much of a hurry. I think this will be perfect for the students I work with who are finishing the second Genki textbook.
Superbly edited, makes great points. As someone with 200 days of DuoLingo and not much more, I'm not entirely sure how the TH-cam algorithm saw fit to put something this advanced in my suggestions, but hopefully the somewhat overwhelming content will have landed somewhere deep in my brain.
Thank you very much! Very unfortunate to hear that you've put 200 days in and still think this is advanced, especially when this was taught in lesson 10 when I first learned it. Really shows how inefficient and ineffective Duolingo is doesn't it!
I have never understood Japanese verbs more than in the first 42 seconds of this video, I did not realize how surface level my understanding of verbs was
Hands down the best video regarding this topic, i am going to Japan and needed a short recap of all different stems and conjugations, this one helped a lot!
I've been studying japanese for a few years now, but the way everyone explained verb conjugations to me was always confusing. Now THIS. This video makes sense!!! Thank you so much, no one has ever told me to seperate the verb and the "helping verb" before!
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into making these videos. Lots of useful details. Unfortunately all the memes and flashes of funny images are very distracting. Text being shuffled around all the time and displayed only for a few seconds also makes it really difficult to follow along. It feels like you're rushing, desperately trying to fit a large topic into a bite-size video, and I just can't keep up :D Just take it easy, slow down, focus on one thing at a time
As an advanced beginner/intermediate level learner this is incredibly helpful in reconsolidating and summarizing a lot of information that I've learned and some that I've forgotten over the last year or so.
This is actually the most helpful thing I've seen about learning Japanese verb conjugation. Initially never thought I would be able to make sense of it in this lifetime. Thank you, good sir.
Really glad to see you mention Cure Dolly in the description, but maybe it would be more pertinent to put it somewhere more visible, as a lot of these slides were essentially one-to-ones. Good vid tho.
Hello, thanks for watching. This video was not meant to be watched out of context as it's part of a series. I am a direct student of Dolly Sensei and thus all my videos are based on her teachings, and in the first 3... 4? episodes I have expressly stated that. I just didn't expect this video to randomly surpass the others out of nowhere. In the future I will be more careful to make sure I include a verbal credit to Dolly Sen in every video!
That's because the native Japanese approach really is simple to understand! Textbooks just try to make everything complex and confusing 😂 Thanks for watching and commenting!
This was my first video on this channel, and I have to say, its really well explained and I really like it, Also is different for any other Japanese video that I have watched so far
Truly a fascinating video! I must say that you're a tremendously talented educator. Nitpicks & Sidenotes: 3:50 We don't say 幸いに; we somehow only use 幸い or 幸いにも as a standalone, sentence-modifying adverb. 7:51: The screenshots you cite do not represent the "住める"-like form you're talking about. It instead is the explanation for "住まる"-like form that appears in Classical Japanese, as in 冬は、いかなる所にも住まる。 "In winter it is possible to live anywhere" (Tsurezuregusa, Section #55) Yes, your explanation of る in 住める as another type of helper verb is logically a very good choice, but unfortunately the grammar used in the Japanese education system does not treat this as a type of a 助動詞, partly because it focuses on maintaining the parallelism between the Classical and Modern Japanese. 13:01: Exactly. The sole reason why both of these stems are called 未然形 is because they were identical to each other in Classical Japanese.
Thank you very much! Thanks for pointing out the 幸いに at 3:50, good to know! As for 7:51, the 広辞林 definition actually does support what I'm saying, it simply uses very dated examples. Nobody says 住まる any more in modern Japanese because they say 住める instead. The 住まる used in that example **IS** modern day 住める. When it comes to modern Japanese vs classical Japanese: Exactly as my point in 13:01 goes- the system I use can be called an evolution of the common system often taught to Japanese people (since even Japanese people have multiple systems to describe Japanese). I concern not with classical Japanese unless it actually has an impact on modern Japanese- 未然形 for example being clearly different in the modern day means that there's no reason to call both the あ and お stem the 未然形 anymore. Not to mention, words like ない being considered 助動詞 when it's not a 動詞. "な-adjectives" being called 形容動詞 when they are not 動詞 either. 連用形 and 連体形 supposedly only connecting to 用言 and 体言 respectively- but don't actually do this. Sometimes there's no choice but to look at what classical Japanese does to explain some remaining "fossils" that have not evolved to fit modern Japanese (like using が in place of の or vice versa). But those are few and far between. There are quite a lot of flaws with the Japanese system too, so instead of blindly teaching it as "The Japanese way" I prefer to seek what is actually the most useful and logical to modern Japanese. Thank you very much for this comment, I hope you will agree with what I am doing here and hope to continuing receiving your support! 😁
@@JouzuJuls > the 広辞林 definition actually does support what I'm saying I would argue otherwise; る in 住まる and る in 住める are two different forms that happen to look similar only in its standalone form. 未然+る as in 住まる in Classical Japanese goes like 住まれず - 住まれて - 住まる (corresponding to 住まれない - 住まれて - 住まれる in Modern Japanese): it is an ancestor of modern 五段未然+れる. This use of 五段未然+れる to mean 可能 (instead of 受身) is almost obsolete in the standard dialect of the younger generation, but does occasionally come up in literature (also serves crucial role in understanding dialectal forms like Kansai's 飲まれへん). 仮定+る as in 住める (usually known as the "potential form") goes like 住めない - 住めて - 住める (which would correspond to 住めず - 住めて - 住む in Classical Japanese), and likely originally arose from intransitive-transitive pairs such as 四段「立つ」vs. 下二段「立つ」(corresponding to 五段「立つ」vs. 下一段「立てる」of Modern Japanese) > There are quite a lot of flaws with the Japanese system too Totally agree! The whole purpose of this system is to trick native Japanese speakers into believing that Classical Japanese works almost the same way as the modern counterpart, and it is definitely a bad idea to blindly teach it to non-native learners who are trying to get better at the modern language.
Interesting take on it! My theory of it is a little different. It is of my opinion that 未然+る evolved into both 受身 AND 仮定. We can see this for 3 reasons: 1. 仮定 implies that it hasn't yet been done, because if it's already been done- it can't be hypothetical. Therefore, it falls in line with classical 未然 2. There are similarities of the meanings between 受身 and 仮定. We can see this when translating 「冬はいかなる所にも住まる」into modern Japanese: Both いかなる所にも住まれる and いかなる所にも住める make sense and capture the meaning of being able to live anywhere. 3. It explains why られる means both for Ichidan verbs. Especially considering that Ichidan verbs are more closely related to classical Japanese than Godan verbs are, we can see this as a slight window into the past. Combining all the above, I don't see a need to treat Kansai's 飲まれへん like anything special as it's not a completely unique thing we've never seen before in standard modern dialect. And I think it's not a very big leap to see how 受身 and 仮定 essentially have the same parents. I don't particularly see a link between 仮定 and 他動詞・自動詞 just because (at least for me) I don't really see how the logic lines up here. Perhaps if you could provide a source, I could further look into this?
@@JouzuJuls 青木博史's 「可能動詞の成立について」(available freely from Kyushu University Institutional Repository) traces the historical use of this potential form, and mentions that in the 江戸前期 period, in which these forms started to arise, all of the usage of these forms are derived from transitive verbs that lack corresponding intransitive forms, and even in the 江戸中期 period we only find a single exception to this rule. This rule starts to break down in 江戸後期, but even then the majority of the cases are from "transitive verbs that lack corresponding intransitive forms". Thus, he claims, we can see that this phenomenon's origin should be best explained as the derivation of intransitive 下二段 verbs from the transitive 四段 verbs found in 中世室町期. Since the Classical Japanese 助動詞 る・らる (Modern れる・られる) and 補助動詞 う (Modern うる/える as in ありうる/ありえる) can connect to any verbs, he claims that the strong preference to transitive verbs found in the Edo period undermines the hypothesis that the potential form came from Classical Japanese 助動詞 る.
@@hsjoihs_linguistic Speaking of classical Japanese, don't you think modern Japanese is less logical and less deep than classical Japanese? For example, there were several auxiliaries to express past or completion, like つ, ぬ, き, けり, たり, but all of them have been absorded by modern た: now it may be "easier", but we may lost deepness and nuances. I also think about the 五段 verbs: in classical Japanese, they all became irregular verbs (except those ending by す) when we add て or た in their 連用形 (so that their 連用形 has been "corrupted"). And other irregularities appeared in modern Japanese with verbs ending by う, which was ふ before: their 未然形 that was ending by は, is now ending by わ, which makes a Japanese learner a bit puzzled the first time he discovers that. Besides, in modern Japanese, almost all verbs and auxiliaries have identical 連体形 and 終止形 (except for だ, formerly なり, in 終止形, that becomes な in 連体形 in modern Japanese): in classical Japanese, except for the 五段 (which were called 四段 before), all verbs and auxiliaries had different 終止形 and 連体形, which made them easier to distinguish in a sentence. I could also talk about the "conditional": in classical Japanese, we used to use the 未然形 of verbs, which was logical. Now, in modern Japanese, when we use e.g. ば, we use the same verb form (called 仮定形, replacing 已然形), so it can be confusing now when ば is used in order to expression "conditional" or "parallelism". And many other details I've forgotten. In other words: it seems Japanese language became easier, but also less deep with less nuances.
This is SUCH a great video, a real gem! I'll have to watch it several times over the course of my language journey but holy cow you saved me insane amounts of time for future learning!
I appreciate the grammar heavy content. Not everyone is looking for beginner friendly , grammar free information. I was looking for a more linguistic approach to understand what I’m trying to learn by myself and I found it here.
未然形 isn’t quite flawed - 未然形 historically ended in ア段 for 五段 verbs regardless - including in front of the auxiliary verb う. 飲もう was written 飲まう, 行こう was written 行かう, 使おう was 使はう (from 使ふ, cf. 使ひます, 使はない, 使へば), etc. Tangentially, ましょう used to be ませう (未然形 like in ません, ませぬ). However, due to pronunciation drift and orthographic reform, from the late Meiji era until the end of WWII, Japan embarked on an orthographic reform that essentially made the spellings reflect their current pronunciations as opposed to their historical ones. But - other than that point - this video is a must-see for ALL English speaking learners of Japanese. *This* is the real deal.
Exactly, it worked historically, but not anymore. The problem with traditional Japanese linguistics is that- while the language has evolved, the linguistics did not. This is why people still try to brute force 未然形 into modern Japanese despite it making no sense until you look at old Japanese that is no longer used. Imagine if we taught English in a nonsensical way that could only be understood upon reading Shakespeare 🤔 This is what I mean by flawed 👍
Careful 2:51 : 合うdoes not mean to meet (that is 会う same pronunciation) but rather have the idea of reciprocity like in 話し合い (both speaking) or 付き合い (both going out)
You're not wrong, but remember that native Japanese (that is kunyomi words) existed before Kanji was imported into Japanese. The sound "あう" only means to meet and there is no differentiation between "meeting of people" or "meeting of items". . This means that 会う and 合う are both the same word, simply written with different Kanji to clarify *what* is being met. . Both 会う and 合う share the meaning of "meet". . Remember to work forward instead of backward. We know they both mean "the concept of meet" and thus the application of it must match the meaning. To work backward is to assume it means some English word, then try to change the meaning of 合う to fit this English word. Japanese is not English. . For reference: 新明解国語辞典 第五版 【合う】 （一）〈なに・だれト―〉 接近して一体化したり 両者の間に食い違いが無くなったり する。 （二）〈なにニ―〉 基準と比ベて見て、矛盾・狂い・不都合が無い状態だ。 （三）〈なにニ―〉 二つの物を組み合わせてみて、違和感が無く見られる様子だ。 （四）〈なにニ―〉 それだけ△労力（元手）をかけても、なんとか やって行ける状態だ。 [二]〔接尾語的に〕 同じ動作を、向こうもし こちらもする。 . Just to be more clear, you're not wrong- 会う does carry that nuance. But I'm talking about the *essense* of the meaning of the word, of which all the nuance is born from.
@@JouzuJuls I see what you mean in some way, but I feel like you mean native Japanese could not have homophones which sounds weird... I have some doubt on the fact words like 髪 and 紙 would have the same nature 😂 But on the other hand, maybe the kanji of 合 have the idea of meet in some way and that would explain why it appears in words like 集合 or 合流
@@baptiste3623 Yea definitely not saying that Japanese has no homophones! Just saying that some words actually have the same root origin, and understanding the root is often helpful in understanding the branches (ie かける 👀) On that note, it's possible that 神 and 上(かみ) have the same root too. (And thus words like 雷（かみなり）could've just come from 神/上 and 鳴り. Pretty interesting stuff 😋 If you looked at all the definitions of 合 (or even looked at what it means in Chinese), you can easily fit the English word "meet" in there to describe it 😉
Really glad I found this! Duolingo doesn't really do a good job of explaining that something like のみます (which is how it's displaying it) is effectively two words, which as an English speaker verb phrases like that is not at all a novel concept. I would much rather learn that 飲む is like "to drink" and learn that's the part that conjugates than just being presented with のみます as the catch-all "drink" verb.
The おう of the お stem is as such because it is derived from a certain あ stem, あう→おう. That's why it's mizenkei. The volitional form falls under mizenkei because mizenkei classifies actions that have not happened yet (if ever).
That's very interesting, I did not know that the お stem came from the あ stem, but it really shows how outdated that system is. Even the 未然形 itself isn't accurate to its name. 殴られた uses the 未然形 of 殴る but it's also 過去形 so it's already happened. Similarly 殴る itself does not necessarily imply that the action has already taken place, so it itself can be 未然 too. Overall, the old system and old names like 連用形 as well are quite outdated and don't accurately describe what they do. It's a system that should be evolved or abandoned to fit modern Japanese.
Uncredibly fast but the clearest and the most complete explanation of the verbal system - and as a bonusI have got the clipping of my favourite Atttacking Titan! Many many thanks!
Prolly one of the best videos of japanese i saw, such a good way to teach, i didn't study too much of grammar (just the basics) but this was all i needed thx so much bro. Btw, there is a mistake on the 9:27 it'd be "Let's eat" no "Let's talk". Sorry abt my english, im an native spanish speaker 🕴️
Even though Japanese verb conjugation being tough requires impenetrable concentration, the memes used in this video are hilarious enough to be distracting.
This is really helpful! I've been studying Japanese for a little bit over 1 month now and recently got my hands on verbs. Conjugations were explained briefly, but I knew about some of the ones that were mentioned in this video. The editing is hilarious. (Sorry if something sound wrong, English isn't my first language).
This shows a lack of understanding of how conjugations really work as you believe that verb+adjective = adjective when in reality it's just 2 words. First of all, "い-adjectives" don't really exist because all adjectives are い-adjectives. That's what 形容詞 means. たい is a 補助形容詞 (helper adjective) that is attached to the い stem of a 動詞. Attaching a helper adjective to a verb does not change the verb into an adjective. The verb stays as a verb and the adjective stays as the adjective. Remember, the "conjugation" (活用) is simply the changing of the stem. Attaching stuff afterwards is NOT part of "conjugating".
@@JouzuJuls you act as though i'm trying to reinvent japanese grammar to fit my image of the language, moreover, your tone is possibly the most condescending I have heard in a long time. I specifically stated that this conceptualisation helped ME wrap MY head around the use of -tai forms in japanese, how they are used in sentences, and how they interact with nouns and other verbs within that sentence. What I did was note a SIMILARITY that I noticed, and one that helped me wrap my head around the concept enough to be able to comprehend more sentences, which is the desired result, no? of course I appreciate criticism, but at least make it respectful. I understand that you are much farther ahead on this path than me, but that does not give you the opportunity or right to treat everyone below you as though they're idiots. for the record, I hold your teachings in high regard, but seeing this response makes you look less like a teacher and more like an egomaniac.
@sido6587 You asked me to tell you if you're wrong, so I did. . For the record, I am not a teacher, I am simply sharing what I've learned as if this was a class presentation to my other classmates. . I meant no offense and was not trying to be rude in the slightest in my response, I simply pointed out the most useful way Japanese works. I further see no reason why you would've interpreted anything I've said to be rude. . If whatever works for you works for you, then good on you. But what works for you also differs from how it really works- that's just a fact. There's no need to take offense to any of this at all as none of this offensive? . I used to pronounce words like Ptilopsis with a P, and if I asked for feedback and was told I had a lack of understanding on how to pronounce English words of Greek origin that start with Pt, that would be objectively correct and I would just work on fixing that?? . Maybe we come from different backgrounds but when I ask whether something's correct, and someone tells me I'm wrong in spot A, B, and C- I just go fix ABC. . I'm not trying to push people who like my content away and I'm especially not trying to offend or disrespect anybody. But if you think being straightforward and not sugarcoating what I say is disrespectful and offensive, then it may not be a great idea for you to ask me for feedback. . Secondly, you ARE reinventing the model to fit your idea of the language. If you weren't, you wouldn't be hung up on "what works for you"- you'd simply look at "what is". . If we all had ideas of "what works for us", then we'd all be using our own models that'd be unique to each individual. . There is an objective, effective, useful model for Japanese. I don't particularly care for any single person's individual idea of how Japanese works, and I definitely put 0 credibility to how I "THOUGHT" it worked, especially if I knew nothing of it when first starting. I simply look at what IS effective and learn that, how I feel and what I think doesn't really matter. . So again, if it works for you, good for you. But there is a system that is already established with 0 flaws and 0 exceptions, and it's different from your personal reinvention of the system that works for you. . If you want to keep using what you think is correct, that's fine. Unless you run into a problem with it- then there is no real problem. . My approach is to disregard what I "think" is correct and simply look at what "is" correct. . This response in and of itself is again simply pointing out facts. I see no reason for you to get upset at any of this at all.
@@JouzuJuls I think should have mentioned this but I agree with your response, my only issue was in how it was delivered. I work in I.T and so I often have to learn new things myself and teach others the things I learn. I admit that when it comes to Japanese I am NOWHERE NEAR proficient, and so I‘m open to criticism, as long as it’s constructive. But when it comes to teaching and sharing what I learn, I think we have some common ground here. I am honestly having a difficult time, as you probably did, so as correct as your criticism is, the tone was honestly condescending and nullified the pleasure of learning and understanding something new. And whether or not you see yourself as a teacher is irrelevant, that’s what people perceive you as so that is what you are in their eyes. And in mine too.
yo this is what I was looking for. I was overwhelmed by Japanese of how you conjugate verbs, and how would you even conjugate complex case where mutiple verbs tense and negative just smashing to each other. This basically solve all of that.
I love that I can slow down the video in TH-cam settings. This is exactly what I needed: no extra information, just the rules and when they apply. What program are you using for written input at 9:30?
Finally someone who understands that you can slow down and pause videos Glad you found the video useful! I used After Effects for everything in this video :)
@@JouzuJuls I'm an adult rehabilitation education instructor trained in Universal Design for Learning and accessible materials. It was my goal to reply with dignity to others who may not have thought to change the video down. I'm also deaf.
8:57 I actually think this change should be added into standard Japanese. It just makes sense to have two different forms for two different meanings. I personally drop the ら myself when speaking in a casual setting so seem more hip and cool with my fellow kids.
I couldn’t be more glad this video got recommended to me. Feels like it’ll be some really useful knowledge for my Japanese learning in the future. Thank you for making this :D (And it’s very well made too, wow. From explanation to editing. Phew mate)
New video that simplifies 60% of Japanese Grammar with 1 pattern (like ている、ていく、てくる、ては、ても、etc), check it out now!: th-cam.com/video/a5HHq0HZbkM/w-d-xo.html
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This video took 3 months of writing, 2 weeks of editing, and 2 hospital trips to make.
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If you found this video helpful or enlightening in any way, please leave a comment letting me know and subscribe if you would like to see more!
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I will also be responding to any comments or questions on this video but if you would like to reach out to me directly, just ping me on the Discord server: discord.gg/deg7eBq
What caused the hospital trips??
But anyways the video was well done
@@UCantNinjaMe Got covid 3 months ago which sent me to the hospital the first time.
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Then for the next 2.5 months my asthma got aggravated and I couldn't walk, speak, or breathe properly without wheezing (see here: th-cam.com/video/jO-MsyOCpr0/w-d-xo.html )
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After I finally recovered and recorded this video, I got one of the worse cases of food poisoning I've ever gotten. Hospital again.
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Still currently suffering from the food poisoning, it's been like 2 weeks. 🤪🤪
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Glad you enjoyed the video! 😂
Excellent video, thank you so much Juls.
@@xshugox You're very welcome!
Great video, but I hate the title. A cheat sheet is usually something that can be easily referenced and contained into a small form factor. Calling this video a cheat sheet is pretty disingenuous.
Again, video is good, it's just not a cheat sheet in any sense of the word.
Oh god, 13 minutes of overwhelming grammar rules. This is gonna take me a while to get adjusted, considering my reading speed is equal to a kid who's favorite crayon color flavor is みどり.
The single rule can be easily summarized into 1 sentence:
There are only 5 verb conjugations in Japanese, and the purpose of conjugations is not to change the meaning of the verb, but to allow you to attach the appropriate helpers.
There are no complex rules and hundreds for forms, just one simple sentence. 😉
"hey mom it's me. Yea I'm doing good. No the Japanese isn't coming along. The video was 13 minutes"
You don’t actually need to learn the rules like this to speak and understand Japanese. That’s not to say it isn’t potentially helpful, but you will notice the patterns after enough exposure to the language. Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive, so you’ll have a much better time letting grammar rules explain what you’ve already noticed than you will trying to figure out how to say things with a scrabble bag of words and rules.
Yeah this is so dense it made me want to give up. I gotta find an easier entry point.
@@Austpie While we're on the topic of grammar, you made an grammatical mistake in English. "Doing" is a conjugation of "to be," and, as a verb, any descriptors must be adverbs, not adjectives. You are doing well, not good. I will not address your capitalization and punctuation.
The editing of this video is just INSANELY GOOD, so funny as well. The content couldn't be better. Cure Dolly surely is somewhere very proud of you!
Please never delete this channel!!
Sorry for the late reply! Thank you very much for watching and commenting!
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Really hope to make Dolly Sen proud! 🙏😇
I saw the train and had to pause. 😢
RIP cure dolly, her teachings will forever be immortalised
You make learning Japanese look so easy by explaining everything so clearly without missing a step, I can tell you really put a lot of effort into making your videos and you are so informative but underrated alongside with cure dolly sensei
I make it look easy because it really is easy! At this point I'm kinda convinced that textbooks intentionally makes things harder so you end up buying more textbooks 😂
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Glad you enjoyed the video and found it informative! I'll keep doing my best to carrying on Dolly Sensei's work!
Where has this video been all of my life? HOLY CRAP I cant stop thinking about words Ive heard now over years of studying with slow growth. I learned so much more in this 13 min video.
I can genuinely say, that after two months of studying Japanese for hours every day - I did not quite understand conjugations until now - and suddenly I feel like I know them very well. This is a fuckin' excellent video.
Very glad I was able to condense this information into an easily digestible package that cleared up 2 months of confusion for you! Thanks for watching and commenting!
The comparison to lego blocks really helped I think. Great teacher. @@JouzuJuls
This is such an underrated video! I am a Japanese learner from Taiwan, and I've been learning Japanese for months now. Not even halfway through the video, I am already subscribed and am surprised by how few the likes and subscribe count are. My native language is Mandarin Chinese, which means I have a huge advantage in recognizing the kanji characters since the writing system of my native language is entirely based on such a system. I've been watching a lot of videos to teach myself Japanese; some of them are taught in Chinese, some are in English, and this video is one of the best tutorial videos by far, simplifying the rather complicated conjugation rules for beginners. I also find it extremely useful that this video directly uses kanji instead of hiragana letters, which oversimplifies the writing system for a learner like me who is already familiar with the characters. I feel so grateful that I've come across this video and was randomly recommended by the TH-cam algorithm. Keep up the good work! Now that I've come across this video, I'd be binge-watching some of your other videos. Your channel deserves more views and subscribers.
Thank you for taking the time to write such a nice comment! We actually have a similar background as I'm from Hong Kong and learned Chinese first (except I'm not fluent in Chinese and can't even read basic stuff like menus).
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One note is that the conjugation rules really aren't complicated at all- the system showcased in this video is the system that Japanese natives use and is very simple. The only reason it seems complex is because textbooks intentionally make things harder by ignoring native systems and coming up with their own random stuff.
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Very glad the YT algorithm brought you here too! Thanks for watching and commenting!
How is your English so good? Pretty rare in Taiwan.
@@Owjdnskoakansbskk exactly, how is it so good
defining the difference between rareru with an a stem and rareru with an e stem literally changes everything ty
I loved how you paid homage to Cure Dolly sensei with the explanation in the form of engines and the correct translations and "lego like structure" and two of her videos recommended, may she rest in peace.
😮😢😮😢 I am shocked to hear this about Cure Dolly sensei. I haven’t visited her channel for a while…
When the train popped up, I had to pause the video. 😞
His explanations felt all very familiar indeed… thank you cure dolly…
@@santiagovidal4497I mean not similar, it literally was just cure dolly’s explanation.
I will say he did a good job in condensing the information to be a lot more efficient.
She was my favourite.
在日日本人ですがとても分かりやすい説明だと思います
I didn't learn this way but rather immersed Japanese watching anime and still a beginner (advanced) in Japanese, but this video is a gold mine, and I agree with all of these explanations in this video.
Because after immersing I already know / expect how verb is going to change for different purposes and this video explained these rules in a brilliant way.
Thank you very much! Glad you got value out of this video! 😎
2 years of Japanese classes in college and this video helped me understand conjugation more in 13 minutes than the classes ever did
How interesting! Finnish is actually very similar, you add different endings to a verb to give it a new/different meaning. This video was very helpful, thank you!
torilla tavataan (ja opetellaan japanii;3)!
The only thing I learned from this video us that conjugations are much kore complex than I thought
Finally someone undusting the teaching of Cure Dolly (RIP), I'm glad that this way of learning Japanese grammar is spreading. (Julien Fontanier, a french TH-cam-teacher also seem to work this way, although he didn't fully uncovered the scheme yet)
But atm you're like the third person that I know in the TH-cam game explaining the Japanese grammar like this.
Had to revisit this over a couple of weeks to fully absorb and apply it but thank you so much! The lego block analogy puts it into a much more digestible format too
Bro pls make more videos like this. I must say this save me so much time than try to learn the traditional way. You so good. Thank you so muchhhh
The funny thing is that the "traditional" way is just some random method that was made up, the method shown in this video is what Japanese natives actually use so technically this IS the "traditional" method 😂
Glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I can’t thank you enough, this is exactly what I needed. I’ve been stuck as a beginner without making much progress because I couldn’t wrap my head around sentence structure. I especially appreciate learning more about the actual Japanese way to understand Japanese grammar.
I’m excited to watch the rest of your videos!
I appreciate your breakdown. It's like an even more comprehensive version of a Cure Dolly video ✨️
Glad you enjoyed it and found it useful! It really means a lot when people recognize Dolly Sensei in my videos, means I'm doing my work of continuing her legacy right!
I can tell I'm officially old since I find this rapid fire editing and pacing style very difficult to follow. The content is so nice, though! If you cut the sound effects by 90% and increased the runtime by 100% to let each topic breathe a bit, I think it would be much more useful. But everyone else seems to be just happy with it, so I'll see myself out and into the nursing home.
Oh, for future videos, my other suggestion would be to pronounce あ like the Japanese vowel instead of the English letter A, since it sounds like you're saying え, especially since you used the Japanese pronunciation for every other vowel.
Another oldie here. Yes! I might have absorbed *some* of this if it had been half as fast, without whooshing sounds, and without anime clips. As it was, my brain just slowly closed itself into a shell.
I find it helpful to watch these on .75x or .5x speed to absorb more of the information, and to pause often.
I agree with you. Too bad this video could be very good from a learning point of view. However, too fast, too many concepts and too much information every few seconds. Not to mention the high amount of unnecessary anime clips that don't really help to understand the explanations provided.
Unfortunatelly, playing it at .75x (or less) doesn't work for me.
I agree even though I'm only in HS. I am making videos recording my own Japanese journey and teaching and sharing resources along the way in a much slower and easy to follow style. No super fast edits, no over the top SFX. I'm still new to yt so they are not the best so far but I'm working on it 💪. New video dropping in a few days too so look out for it
Bro don't stop cooking 🔥, you'll def blow up considering the quality of your videos! 💪
🍲🍲Yes sir! Thank you very much for watching, glad you enjoyed the video!
You answered most of my questions in a 13 minutes video. I have no idea how did you manage to do that.
This is by far the best explanation I’ve seen of verb conjugation, it finally makes sense. I really struggled with it but I’ve just been looking at it the wrong way this whole time. 本当にありがとうございます
Glad my video was able to make verb conjugations clear for you! こちらこそ見てくれてありがとうございます！
This is how I explain the verb conjugation to people struggling. When I was in high school, I graduated in 2012, and learning Japanese, this is the patterned I learned before my Sensei challenged me Kokugo. Great, editing and Video. I will recommend this to those who need a visual understanding as well.
This video is pure gold for someone like me who has been confused for a while by the J verbs. Thank you JouzuJuls san so much for making this informative and animated tutorial. Best one on TH-cam.
On the topic of xたい while "I want to drink x" sure is an understandable translation not mentioning the fact that the true meaning is actually that something is "want to drink" inducing is probably harmful in the long run. It's an adjective not a verb. Edit: you did touch on it in the end but I feel like it wasn't quite satisfactory, which you yourself probably realised as well therefore linking to another video. overall great video, I love seeing cure dolly style shit getting the recognition it deserves.
Yes, this was already covered in previous videos in this series: th-cam.com/video/7fv1V-BB9NI/w-d-xo.html
Your video is insane, it's very comprehensive and easy to see the overview of Japanese Verb Confugation. This one is really CHEAT SHEET. I really like the way you explain it. Thank youuu
You confirmed and untangled so many things that I've been guessing at for a long time, a lot of this logic was faintly swirling in the back of my brain. It didn't all soak in in the first watch but feels like I have something to grab onto now
Most helpful japanese video lesson ive seen in my life
I could like the video 100 times and still won't show how thankful I am. Thank you, really.
Thank you very much!
If you like 100 times it'll be unlike
@@gamermyth9464 How are you so verse in the laws of wisdom? :)
@@JuanDavid-ug7hd i guess it's just natural unless the subject is useful🤦
Damn, getting a video about verb conjugation from one of my favourite youtubers just when I started learning it is amazing, thanks!
Means a lot to hear that I'm one of your favorite TH-camrs! Hope you enjoy the video and find it useful! 😁
underrated video, simplify the verb conjugation so well and included so many examples
The fact that I took nearly one year of Japanese lessons online to learn a fraction of the grammar knowledge dump you put in this video is insane. A lot of this stuff I had started picking up naturally, but as I watch your video it all clicks and makes even more sense.
during this video I wanted to quit SO much but your edit it's SO insanely good I've actually watched the entire video! 🤣
I can't believe japanese could be this particular, but I just can't stop loving it! domo arigatou!
(a bit more about the _flaw_ of 未然形)
the -O form only take the single auxiliary verb う (-u), because there was no such thing as -O form.
-u comes from a classical auxiliary verb む (-mu), which takes the -A form, and the sound change happened.
for consonant-stem (五段) verbs,
書かむ /-amu/ > 書かう /-au/ > 書こう /-o:/
and for vowel-stem (一段) verbs,
見む /-imu/ > 見う /-iu/ > /-jo:/ > 見よう /-ijo:/
this went way over my head, as i am just beginning my learning journey, but it also filled me with so much excitement to keep learning one day at a time
I’ve been saying that for years, and people looked at me like I’m crazy. I’m glad the Japanese conjugation is finally being talked about like that.
I love the random editing with all the sounds. Keeps you on edge haha
I just want to say that was really helpful. For months of either learning how to speak from listenings or learning vocabulary it was always presented as separate verbs for 'to drink' 'to want to drink' 'to make someone drink' etc. (to show and to be shown sth).
The way You presented it as actual single verb + another helping verb + another helping verb makes it look so plain simple and especially logical. Thank You.
That is the NUMBER ONE thing I wanted this video to help fight against. Very glad to hear that it cleared this up for you!
This is the 4th year of learning Japanese at school as an extra-curricular activity, and I didn’t know you should look at 飲みます as 飲み+ます
Thanks for the video, I found three other interesting and possibly helpful vids that I’m gonna watch tomorrow, you earned my sub! :)
Can't believe I wanted to learn how to play mahjong and now I found one of my new favorite JP learning resources. Thanks a million!!
I can't believe I started learning Japanese and fell in love with Mahjong either 😂
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Glad to have you on board mate! Thanks for watching and commenting!
As someone whos working on conjugation right now, having this show up in my timeline has been an absolute blessing. That just made everything SO much easier to understand!
9:54 This section completely blew my mind of how systematic and logical conjugations are. It’s a eureka moment that I rarely get from learning Japanese, so thank you so much!!
One question though, is there a set order to go through when we do this process of conjugating in a lego-like manner? And if so, what is the order to do that?
Helpful and logical explanation. Will watch & repeat over and over again!
Honestly, this is why I love tae kim's guide. He doesn't westernize Japanese grammar, he teaches it how Japanese people perceive it.
Tae Kim does not teach it the way it is taught in this video, nor does he teach it how Japanese people perceive it.
Most people who use Tae Kim get a feeling like they understand bits of Japanese, use it in real life- and get confused
If they then push through, they'll eventually get the gist of it anyway- but then give credit back to Tae Kim for explaining things "logically"
When you ask people what exactly the logic of Tae Kim was, few are able to give a detailed answer, because Tae Kim's fundamental explanation of Japanese is not logical.
Those who do give a detailed answer often logically describe Japanese in a way that Tae Kim does not- or simply have lots of flaws in their description.
Please watch this for more:
th-cam.com/video/-JuHi-yKGFc/w-d-xo.html
I’ve been self studying Japanese for around 10 years now and when I finally got to take courses in college, I was extremely disappointed with how easy it was for me and how they taught it. It was through Genki and they heavily emphasized drill sentences. They would give us a sentence and then have us rewrite its “format” but just with one or two different words. They also taught conjugation in the way you disapprove of (for example, when they taught us short form, they did it like this: “飲む->飲みます->飲み”. But I learned how to conjugate the exact way you describe in the video (which was really helpful thank you!). I didn’t fully realize though that verb conjugations literally just go through the vowels and I love the way you explained it. Thank you so so much for making this video!!
日本人だけどこの動画おもろい
そんじょそこらの外国人の日本語と違って、声調が完璧ですね
よく勉強していると思う
日本人でしたらすみません
Wow - this makes way too much sense. Why have I wasted the past 5 years with the unnecessarily difficult textbook method?! They teach the same thing, but THIS way is so much easier to understand and remember! It almost seems like Japanese kids would be taught this way, since they don't have to learn through the filter of English grammar rules...
You have a unique ability to be both thorough and concise - which is not an easy thing to do. Thank you for this, and I look forward to diving into more of your videos!
"Seems like Japanese kids would be taught this way" because they basically are. I've only tweaked stuff a little bit like the detail about the 未然形 (which even Japanese people will agree is a good change).
Really makes you wonder why textbooks for foreigners DON'T teach it this way huh!
Thank you very much for watching and commenting, glad you enjoyed the video!
If anyone watching this is a beginner and it's too fast/doesn't make sense, don't be discouraged! When you learn Japanese, it takes a lot of time just to absorb the grammar forms, vocabulary, and different uses. It's difficult to understand how everything fits together if you don't even know what half the things mean or how they're used.
That said, it's still good to watch stuff like this and expose yourself to the concepts. Just be patient and don't be in too much of a hurry.
I think this will be perfect for the students I work with who are finishing the second Genki textbook.
ok ive been confused about the passive and causative forms for literal YEARS and this unlocked it in my brain. omfg. yes.
I recognize this very Cure Dolly esque style of video! Nice to see she lives on in your channel
Superbly edited, makes great points.
As someone with 200 days of DuoLingo and not much more, I'm not entirely sure how the TH-cam algorithm saw fit to put something this advanced in my suggestions, but hopefully the somewhat overwhelming content will have landed somewhere deep in my brain.
Thank you very much!
Very unfortunate to hear that you've put 200 days in and still think this is advanced, especially when this was taught in lesson 10 when I first learned it.
Really shows how inefficient and ineffective Duolingo is doesn't it!
I have never understood Japanese verbs more than in the first 42 seconds of this video, I did not realize how surface level my understanding of verbs was
Wonderful explanations of things．😃This is a much easier way to understand this than I had learned before．Thanks!
Hands down the best video regarding this topic, i am going to Japan and needed a short recap of all different stems and conjugations, this one helped a lot!
I've been studying japanese for a few years now, but the way everyone explained verb conjugations to me was always confusing. Now THIS. This video makes sense!!! Thank you so much, no one has ever told me to seperate the verb and the "helping verb" before!
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into making these videos. Lots of useful details. Unfortunately all the memes and flashes of funny images are very distracting. Text being shuffled around all the time and displayed only for a few seconds also makes it really difficult to follow along. It feels like you're rushing, desperately trying to fit a large topic into a bite-size video, and I just can't keep up :D Just take it easy, slow down, focus on one thing at a time
As an advanced beginner/intermediate level learner this is incredibly helpful in reconsolidating and summarizing a lot of information that I've learned and some that I've forgotten over the last year or so.
This is actually the most helpful thing I've seen about learning Japanese verb conjugation. Initially never thought I would be able to make sense of it in this lifetime. Thank you, good sir.
Really glad to see you mention Cure Dolly in the description, but maybe it would be more pertinent to put it somewhere more visible, as a lot of these slides were essentially one-to-ones. Good vid tho.
Hello, thanks for watching. This video was not meant to be watched out of context as it's part of a series. I am a direct student of Dolly Sensei and thus all my videos are based on her teachings, and in the first 3... 4? episodes I have expressly stated that. I just didn't expect this video to randomly surpass the others out of nowhere.
In the future I will be more careful to make sure I include a verbal credit to Dolly Sen in every video!
Bro makes things so easy to understand its crazy. ありがとう!
That's because the native Japanese approach really is simple to understand! Textbooks just try to make everything complex and confusing 😂
Thanks for watching and commenting!
This was my first video on this channel, and I have to say, its really well explained and I really like it, Also is different for any other Japanese video that I have watched so far
Truly a fascinating video! I must say that you're a tremendously talented educator.
Nitpicks & Sidenotes:
3:50 We don't say 幸いに; we somehow only use 幸い or 幸いにも as a standalone, sentence-modifying adverb.
7:51: The screenshots you cite do not represent the "住める"-like form you're talking about. It instead is the explanation for "住まる"-like form that appears in Classical Japanese, as in 冬は、いかなる所にも住まる。 "In winter it is possible to live anywhere" (Tsurezuregusa, Section #55)
Yes, your explanation of る in 住める as another type of helper verb is logically a very good choice, but unfortunately the grammar used in the Japanese education system does not treat this as a type of a 助動詞, partly because it focuses on maintaining the parallelism between the Classical and Modern Japanese.
13:01: Exactly. The sole reason why both of these stems are called 未然形 is because they were identical to each other in Classical Japanese.
Thank you very much! Thanks for pointing out the 幸いに at 3:50, good to know!
As for 7:51, the 広辞林 definition actually does support what I'm saying, it simply uses very dated examples. Nobody says 住まる any more in modern Japanese because they say 住める instead. The 住まる used in that example **IS** modern day 住める.
When it comes to modern Japanese vs classical Japanese:
Exactly as my point in 13:01 goes- the system I use can be called an evolution of the common system often taught to Japanese people (since even Japanese people have multiple systems to describe Japanese). I concern not with classical Japanese unless it actually has an impact on modern Japanese- 未然形 for example being clearly different in the modern day means that there's no reason to call both the あ and お stem the 未然形 anymore.
Not to mention, words like ない being considered 助動詞 when it's not a 動詞. "な-adjectives" being called 形容動詞 when they are not 動詞 either. 連用形 and 連体形 supposedly only connecting to 用言 and 体言 respectively- but don't actually do this.
Sometimes there's no choice but to look at what classical Japanese does to explain some remaining "fossils" that have not evolved to fit modern Japanese (like using が in place of の or vice versa). But those are few and far between.
There are quite a lot of flaws with the Japanese system too, so instead of blindly teaching it as "The Japanese way" I prefer to seek what is actually the most useful and logical to modern Japanese.
Thank you very much for this comment, I hope you will agree with what I am doing here and hope to continuing receiving your support! 😁
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> the 広辞林 definition actually does support what I'm saying
I would argue otherwise; る in 住まる and る in 住める are two different forms that happen to look similar only in its standalone form.
未然+る as in 住まる in Classical Japanese goes like 住まれず - 住まれて - 住まる (corresponding to 住まれない - 住まれて - 住まれる in Modern Japanese): it is an ancestor of modern 五段未然+れる. This use of 五段未然+れる to mean 可能 (instead of 受身) is almost obsolete in the standard dialect of the younger generation, but does occasionally come up in literature (also serves crucial role in understanding dialectal forms like Kansai's 飲まれへん).
仮定+る as in 住める (usually known as the "potential form") goes like 住めない - 住めて - 住める (which would correspond to 住めず - 住めて - 住む in Classical Japanese), and likely originally arose from intransitive-transitive pairs such as 四段「立つ」vs. 下二段「立つ」(corresponding to 五段「立つ」vs. 下一段「立てる」of Modern Japanese)
> There are quite a lot of flaws with the Japanese system too
Totally agree! The whole purpose of this system is to trick native Japanese speakers into believing that Classical Japanese works almost the same way as the modern counterpart, and it is definitely a bad idea to blindly teach it to non-native learners who are trying to get better at the modern language.
Interesting take on it!
My theory of it is a little different. It is of my opinion that 未然+る evolved into both 受身 AND 仮定.
We can see this for 3 reasons:
1. 仮定 implies that it hasn't yet been done, because if it's already been done- it can't be hypothetical. Therefore, it falls in line with classical 未然
2. There are similarities of the meanings between 受身 and 仮定. We can see this when translating 「冬はいかなる所にも住まる」into modern Japanese:
Both いかなる所にも住まれる and いかなる所にも住める make sense and capture the meaning of being able to live anywhere.
3. It explains why られる means both for Ichidan verbs. Especially considering that Ichidan verbs are more closely related to classical Japanese than Godan verbs are, we can see this as a slight window into the past.
Combining all the above, I don't see a need to treat Kansai's 飲まれへん like anything special as it's not a completely unique thing we've never seen before in standard modern dialect.
And I think it's not a very big leap to see how 受身 and 仮定 essentially have the same parents.
I don't particularly see a link between 仮定 and 他動詞・自動詞 just because (at least for me) I don't really see how the logic lines up here. Perhaps if you could provide a source, I could further look into this?
@@JouzuJuls 青木博史's 「可能動詞の成立について」(available freely from Kyushu University Institutional Repository) traces the historical use of this potential form, and mentions that in the 江戸前期 period, in which these forms started to arise, all of the usage of these forms are derived from transitive verbs that lack corresponding intransitive forms, and even in the 江戸中期 period we only find a single exception to this rule.
This rule starts to break down in 江戸後期, but even then the majority of the cases are from "transitive verbs that lack corresponding intransitive forms".
Thus, he claims, we can see that this phenomenon's origin should be best explained as the derivation of intransitive 下二段 verbs from the transitive 四段 verbs found in 中世室町期.
Since the Classical Japanese 助動詞 る・らる (Modern れる・られる) and 補助動詞 う (Modern うる/える as in ありうる/ありえる) can connect to any verbs, he claims that the strong preference to transitive verbs found in the Edo period undermines the hypothesis that the potential form came from Classical Japanese 助動詞 る.
@@hsjoihs_linguistic Speaking of classical Japanese, don't you think modern Japanese is less logical and less deep than classical Japanese? For example, there were several auxiliaries to express past or completion, like つ, ぬ, き, けり, たり, but all of them have been absorded by modern た: now it may be "easier", but we may lost deepness and nuances.
I also think about the 五段 verbs: in classical Japanese, they all became irregular verbs (except those ending by す) when we add て or た in their 連用形 (so that their 連用形 has been "corrupted"). And other irregularities appeared in modern Japanese with verbs ending by う, which was ふ before: their 未然形 that was ending by は, is now ending by わ, which makes a Japanese learner a bit puzzled the first time he discovers that.
Besides, in modern Japanese, almost all verbs and auxiliaries have identical 連体形 and 終止形 (except for だ, formerly なり, in 終止形, that becomes な in 連体形 in modern Japanese): in classical Japanese, except for the 五段 (which were called 四段 before), all verbs and auxiliaries had different 終止形 and 連体形, which made them easier to distinguish in a sentence.
I could also talk about the "conditional": in classical Japanese, we used to use the 未然形 of verbs, which was logical. Now, in modern Japanese, when we use e.g. ば, we use the same verb form (called 仮定形, replacing 已然形), so it can be confusing now when ば is used in order to expression "conditional" or "parallelism".
And many other details I've forgotten. In other words: it seems Japanese language became easier, but also less deep with less nuances.
This is SUCH a great video, a real gem! I'll have to watch it several times over the course of my language journey but holy cow you saved me insane amounts of time for future learning!
I appreciate the grammar heavy content. Not everyone is looking for beginner friendly , grammar free information. I was looking for a more linguistic approach to understand what I’m trying to learn by myself and I found it here.
You have a good sense of humor as well as instructive.
This is like sitting down after an entire life of standing up. This has made so much sense in my head!
i hope you will make a video explaining の vs こと oneday. Love the video.
I'll put that on my whiteboard! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Thanks. I finally understand why the title of the anime is オオカミさんは食べられたい instead of オオカミさんは食べれたい
Omg! Thank you soooo much. You did unbelievably easy verbs form explanation. I think all these is the reason I quit japanese 3 years ago
未然形 isn’t quite flawed - 未然形 historically ended in ア段 for 五段 verbs regardless - including in front of the auxiliary verb う. 飲もう was written 飲まう, 行こう was written 行かう, 使おう was 使はう (from 使ふ, cf. 使ひます, 使はない, 使へば), etc. Tangentially, ましょう used to be ませう (未然形 like in ません, ませぬ). However, due to pronunciation drift and orthographic reform, from the late Meiji era until the end of WWII, Japan embarked on an orthographic reform that essentially made the spellings reflect their current pronunciations as opposed to their historical ones.
But - other than that point - this video is a must-see for ALL English speaking learners of Japanese. *This* is the real deal.
Exactly, it worked historically, but not anymore. The problem with traditional Japanese linguistics is that- while the language has evolved, the linguistics did not.
This is why people still try to brute force 未然形 into modern Japanese despite it making no sense until you look at old Japanese that is no longer used.
Imagine if we taught English in a nonsensical way that could only be understood upon reading Shakespeare 🤔
This is what I mean by flawed 👍
That Ui-mama clip caught me so off guard LOL. Really helpful video thank you!!
Your channel should be bigger. The quality of your editing and instruction is incredible
Careful 2:51 : 合うdoes not mean to meet (that is 会う same pronunciation) but rather have the idea of reciprocity like in 話し合い (both speaking) or 付き合い (both going out)
You're not wrong, but remember that native Japanese (that is kunyomi words) existed before Kanji was imported into Japanese. The sound "あう" only means to meet and there is no differentiation between "meeting of people" or "meeting of items".
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This means that 会う and 合う are both the same word, simply written with different Kanji to clarify *what* is being met.
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Both 会う and 合う share the meaning of "meet".
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Remember to work forward instead of backward. We know they both mean "the concept of meet" and thus the application of it must match the meaning. To work backward is to assume it means some English word, then try to change the meaning of 合う to fit this English word. Japanese is not English.
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For reference:
新明解国語辞典 第五版
【合う】
（一）〈なに・だれト―〉 接近して一体化したり 両者の間に食い違いが無くなったり する。
（二）〈なにニ―〉 基準と比ベて見て、矛盾・狂い・不都合が無い状態だ。
（三）〈なにニ―〉 二つの物を組み合わせてみて、違和感が無く見られる様子だ。
（四）〈なにニ―〉 それだけ△労力（元手）をかけても、なんとか やって行ける状態だ。
[二]〔接尾語的に〕 同じ動作を、向こうもし こちらもする。
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Just to be more clear, you're not wrong- 会う does carry that nuance. But I'm talking about the *essense* of the meaning of the word, of which all the nuance is born from.
@@JouzuJuls I see what you mean in some way, but I feel like you mean native Japanese could not have homophones which sounds weird... I have some doubt on the fact words like 髪 and 紙 would have the same nature 😂
But on the other hand, maybe the kanji of 合 have the idea of meet in some way and that would explain why it appears in words like 集合 or 合流
@@baptiste3623 Yea definitely not saying that Japanese has no homophones! Just saying that some words actually have the same root origin, and understanding the root is often helpful in understanding the branches (ie かける 👀)
On that note, it's possible that 神 and 上(かみ) have the same root too. (And thus words like 雷（かみなり）could've just come from 神/上 and 鳴り. Pretty interesting stuff 😋
If you looked at all the definitions of 合 (or even looked at what it means in Chinese), you can easily fit the English word "meet" in there to describe it 😉
Really glad I found this! Duolingo doesn't really do a good job of explaining that something like のみます (which is how it's displaying it) is effectively two words, which as an English speaker verb phrases like that is not at all a novel concept. I would much rather learn that 飲む is like "to drink" and learn that's the part that conjugates than just being presented with のみます as the catch-all "drink" verb.
「日本語を話いたい」 this' my first ever japanese sentence i made up in my head, all thanks to this video.
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The おう of the お stem is as such because it is derived from a certain あ stem, あう→おう. That's why it's mizenkei. The volitional form falls under mizenkei because mizenkei classifies actions that have not happened yet (if ever).
That's very interesting, I did not know that the お stem came from the あ stem, but it really shows how outdated that system is.
Even the 未然形 itself isn't accurate to its name.
殴られた uses the 未然形 of 殴る but it's also 過去形 so it's already happened. Similarly 殴る itself does not necessarily imply that the action has already taken place, so it itself can be 未然 too.
Overall, the old system and old names like 連用形 as well are quite outdated and don't accurately describe what they do. It's a system that should be evolved or abandoned to fit modern Japanese.
Uncredibly fast but the clearest and the most complete explanation of the verbal system - and as a bonusI have got the clipping of my favourite Atttacking Titan! Many many thanks!
Prolly one of the best videos of japanese i saw, such a good way to teach, i didn't study too much of grammar (just the basics) but this was all i needed thx so much bro.
Btw, there is a mistake on the 9:27 it'd be "Let's eat" no "Let's talk".
Sorry abt my english, im an native spanish speaker 🕴️
Thank you very much! Glad you found this video useful!
Also I didn't notice the error at 9:27 until now!! 😅😭 Thanks for letting me know!
this is literally so helpful and makes perfect sense thank you so much
You're an absolute hero for making these videos, so clear and concise. Thanks so much.
Even though Japanese verb conjugation being tough requires impenetrable concentration, the memes used in this video are hilarious enough to be distracting.
This is really helpful! I've been studying Japanese for a little bit over 1 month now and recently got my hands on verbs. Conjugations were explained briefly, but I knew about some of the ones that were mentioned in this video. The editing is hilarious. (Sorry if something sound wrong, English isn't my first language).
Absolutely perfect lesson video and the montage is so good and smooth
ありがとうございます
A helpful thing for me was to think of -たい forms of verbs as い-adjectives. It has worked for me so far, tell me if I’m wrong
This shows a lack of understanding of how conjugations really work as you believe that verb+adjective = adjective when in reality it's just 2 words.
First of all, "い-adjectives" don't really exist because all adjectives are い-adjectives. That's what 形容詞 means.
たい is a 補助形容詞 (helper adjective) that is attached to the い stem of a 動詞. Attaching a helper adjective to a verb does not change the verb into an adjective. The verb stays as a verb and the adjective stays as the adjective.
Remember, the "conjugation" (活用) is simply the changing of the stem. Attaching stuff afterwards is NOT part of "conjugating".
@@JouzuJuls you act as though i'm trying to reinvent japanese grammar to fit my image of the language, moreover, your tone is possibly the most condescending I have heard in a long time.
I specifically stated that this conceptualisation helped ME wrap MY head around the use of -tai forms in japanese, how they are used in sentences, and how they interact with nouns and other verbs within that sentence. What I did was note a SIMILARITY that I noticed, and one that helped me wrap my head around the concept enough to be able to comprehend more sentences, which is the desired result, no?
of course I appreciate criticism, but at least make it respectful. I understand that you are much farther ahead on this path than me, but that does not give you the opportunity or right to treat everyone below you as though they're idiots.
for the record, I hold your teachings in high regard, but seeing this response makes you look less like a teacher and more like an egomaniac.
@sido6587 You asked me to tell you if you're wrong, so I did.
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For the record, I am not a teacher, I am simply sharing what I've learned as if this was a class presentation to my other classmates.
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I meant no offense and was not trying to be rude in the slightest in my response, I simply pointed out the most useful way Japanese works. I further see no reason why you would've interpreted anything I've said to be rude.
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If whatever works for you works for you, then good on you. But what works for you also differs from how it really works- that's just a fact. There's no need to take offense to any of this at all as none of this offensive?
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I used to pronounce words like Ptilopsis with a P, and if I asked for feedback and was told I had a lack of understanding on how to pronounce English words of Greek origin that start with Pt, that would be objectively correct and I would just work on fixing that??
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Maybe we come from different backgrounds but when I ask whether something's correct, and someone tells me I'm wrong in spot A, B, and C- I just go fix ABC.
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I'm not trying to push people who like my content away and I'm especially not trying to offend or disrespect anybody. But if you think being straightforward and not sugarcoating what I say is disrespectful and offensive, then it may not be a great idea for you to ask me for feedback.
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Secondly, you ARE reinventing the model to fit your idea of the language. If you weren't, you wouldn't be hung up on "what works for you"- you'd simply look at "what is".
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If we all had ideas of "what works for us", then we'd all be using our own models that'd be unique to each individual.
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There is an objective, effective, useful model for Japanese. I don't particularly care for any single person's individual idea of how Japanese works, and I definitely put 0 credibility to how I "THOUGHT" it worked, especially if I knew nothing of it when first starting. I simply look at what IS effective and learn that, how I feel and what I think doesn't really matter.
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So again, if it works for you, good for you. But there is a system that is already established with 0 flaws and 0 exceptions, and it's different from your personal reinvention of the system that works for you.
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If you want to keep using what you think is correct, that's fine. Unless you run into a problem with it- then there is no real problem.
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My approach is to disregard what I "think" is correct and simply look at what "is" correct.
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This response in and of itself is again simply pointing out facts. I see no reason for you to get upset at any of this at all.
@@JouzuJuls I think should have mentioned this but I agree with your response, my only issue was in how it was delivered. I work in I.T and so I often have to learn new things myself and teach others the things I learn. I admit that when it comes to Japanese I am NOWHERE NEAR proficient, and so I‘m open to criticism, as long as it’s constructive. But when it comes to teaching and sharing what I learn, I think we have some common ground here.
I am honestly having a difficult time, as you probably did, so as correct as your criticism is, the tone was honestly condescending and nullified the pleasure of learning and understanding something new.
And whether or not you see yourself as a teacher is irrelevant, that’s what people perceive you as so that is what you are in their eyes. And in mine too.
idk if u did it on purpose but it's *extra* helpful that you color-coded each conjugations as well!!
yo this is what I was looking for. I was overwhelmed by Japanese of how you conjugate verbs, and how would you even conjugate complex case where mutiple verbs tense and negative just smashing to each other. This basically solve all of that.
I love that I can slow down the video in TH-cam settings. This is exactly what I needed: no extra information, just the rules and when they apply. What program are you using for written input at 9:30?
Finally someone who understands that you can slow down and pause videos
Glad you found the video useful! I used After Effects for everything in this video :)
@@JouzuJuls I'm an adult rehabilitation education instructor trained in Universal Design for Learning and accessible materials. It was my goal to reply with dignity to others who may not have thought to change the video down. I'm also deaf.
Illustrating receptive verbs with Kiryu punching Kuze got me good.
I had a good time making that one too, especially the dynamic intro for it 😂
This video is insanely useful. If Japanese school would teach that from the beginning we could become fluent way more quickly
this is the second video of your channel Ive been watching. so underrated! Youre a get cooker, keep cooking
Thank you very much! Glad these videos I've poured months into working on are helpful and being appreciated!!
8:57 I actually think this change should be added into standard Japanese. It just makes sense to have two different forms for two different meanings. I personally drop the ら myself when speaking in a casual setting so seem more hip and cool with my fellow kids.
This is exactly how I learnt the conjunction. The video is so beautiful and wonderful to share and teach.
Thanks a lot.
This video is easier and made more sense than 50% of the french language.
I couldn’t be more glad this video got recommended to me. Feels like it’ll be some really useful knowledge for my Japanese learning in the future.
Thank you for making this :D
(And it’s very well made too, wow. From explanation to editing. Phew mate)
this is the best video i’ve seen on this topic
well done thank you
Thank you very much! Glad you found this video helpful!
Thanks a lot, it's really helpful for a Japanese beginner to comprehend the complex grammar.
the content is fantastic. The delivery is like a tiktok video on steroids.
Soo goood! I'm living in Japan right now, trying to build my Japanese as much as possible! This is super helpful :D
as a heritage jp speaker this was very enlightening ❤