JAPAN 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Watashi Wa, Regular And Irregular Verbs, United Nations Office For The Coordination Of Humanitarian Affairs
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Irregular verbs: used to make compound verbs. Irregular verb to eat to wake to sleep to watch. U verbs iku nomu hanasu yomu kiku to go to drink to speak to read to listen. Irregular verbs kuru suru to come back to do/play sports. Itsu doko de benkyoushimasu ka? (when and where will you study?) Subject marker mo : mo , too/also, placed after subject, used to indicate that one subject is similar to a subject in a previous sentence, follows after the additional item that shares the same properties. Yamashita-sensei mo nihonjin desu. (professor yamashita is also japanese. ) Ne and yo: ne, right, placed at the end of the sentence and asks for feedback/confirmation from the listener, yo. I"(cid:373) telli(cid:374)g you: placed at the end of the sentence and does not require feedback/confirmation, used as emphasis when stating something. Takeshi-san wa nihonjin desu ne. (takeshi is japanese, right?)
