The Handbook of Japanese Verbs

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Pub. Date: 2001-06-19
Publisher(s): Kodansha USA
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Summary

This handbook aims to present clearly and concisely the basics of Japaneseerb construction and to demonstrate how verbs work within various sentencetructures.;Part One deals with the conjugation of verbs: regular,emi-regular and irregular verbs. Conjugation practice for the studentollows the description of a verb or group of verbs. Part Two deals with thesage of various verb forms. Each usage is illustrated with example sentences.xercises are provided intermittently to test the student's progress.ppendices include exercise answers, a list of sentence patterns, a list oferbs divided into regular, semi-regular and irregular forms and annglish-Japanese dictionary.

Author Biography


TAEKO KAMIYA received a BA for Doshisha Women's College (Kyoto) and MAs from the University of San Francisco in education and from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in linguistics. She taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Among her publications are Speak Japanese Today (1989), Japanese for Fun: Make Your Stay in Japan More Enjoyable (1990), Tuttle New Dictionary on Loanwords in Japanese (1994), Subject-Grouped 1016 Kanji in Context (1997), and Japanese Particle Workbook (1998).

Table of Contents

Preface 7(2)
Introduction 9(1)
Tenses of Verbs
9(1)
Levels of Speech
10(1)
Verb Groupings
11(2)
Copulas (Be-verbs)
13(1)
Auxiliaries
13(2)
Transitive and Intransitive
15(1)
PART I---CONJUGATION 16(32)
Regular I Verbs
16(13)
Regular II Verbs
29(3)
Irregular Verbs
32(2)
Copulas (Be-verbs)
34(2)
Auxiliaries
36(12)
PART II---USAGE OF VERB FORMS 48(157)
Conjunctive Form
48(15)
Dictionary Form
63(39)
Negative Form
102(35)
Conditional Form
137(5)
Imperative Form
142(2)
Volitional Form
144(5)
Te Form
149(26)
Ta Form
175(24)
Tara Form
199(3)
Tari Form
202(3)
APPENDIXES 205(1)
Answers to the Practices
Part I
205(7)
Part II
212(12)
Sentence Patterns
219(19)
Basic Japanese Verbs
Regular I Verbs
224(6)
Regular II Verbs
230(3)
Irregular Verbs and Suru Verbs
233(5)
English-Japanese Verb List
238

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