Japanese language
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Japanese (日本語) is a language spoken by over 127 million people, mainly in Japan.
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[edit] Kana
[edit] Verbs
Most verbs in Japanese come in two categories. The first is 一段動詞, also called ru-verbs or type 2 verbs, and 五段動詞, also called u-verbs or type 1 verbs. Two verbs which don't belong to either category are する and 来る, which are sometimes called type 3 verbs.
[edit] Adjectives
There are two types of adjective in Japanese, い adjectives (known as keiyoushi 形容詞) always end in い, and な adjectives (known as keiyoudoushi 形容動詞) which have a な added to the end of them when they are placed in front of nouns.
[edit] い adjectives
い adjectives change their form for the past tense, negative etc. The Japanese for new is atarashii (新しい). To change it into the past tense you drop the final い and replace it with katta (かった) so it becomes atarashikatta (新しかった). The negative is formed by replacing the い with kunai (くない) to get atarashikunai (新しくない). To get the negative past tense first use the negative version atarashikunai (新しくない), and just like the past tense, drop the final い and replace it with katta (かった) so it becomes atarashikunakatta (新しくなかった).
| dictionary form | 新しい | new |
| past | 新しかった | was new |
| negative | 新しくない | not new |
| past negative | 新しくなかった | was not new |
[edit] Japanese to English Dictionary
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Click on a letter to look up words starting with that letter. You can look words up either by using the Japanese order on the left or English alphabetical order on the right. Remember, this is a Japanese to English dictionary only.
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[edit] See Also
- Ten Nights of Dream A colection of short stories writen in Japanese.
