Hi, I hope that this video helps to clarify what 'masu' is and what it does. I don't have access to my actual microphone at the moment, hence the worse voice quality, so I apologise for that. To clarify, there are definite differences between Japanese spoken in formal settings, and normal everyday language. However, what I wanted to achieve with this video, is to explain how the conjugation differences between 'masu' and 'plain form' Japanese really doesn't make up two separate systems of conjugation. Masu is just an auxiliary verb that makes a Japanese verb more formal/polite. I.e., 食べます (tabemasu) is the more formal/polite version of 食べる (taberu).
@@railvolt thank you :) it's only 13 minutes long, but you'd be amazed at how even simple editing like this takes, probably took a good few hours to make. I'm looking forward to making more though!
Thank you so much for this video! I love the fact that more people are understanding ます forms not as conjugations, but as auxiliary verbs added onto verb stems. It helps making Japanese grammar much more understandable and regular
@@gustavovillegas5909 thank you for the kind comment! I really struggled with Japanese, until I began to try and find out the Japanese logic behind their own language and it all suddenly began to click more easily :)
What the hell!? 😂 I accidentally stumbled upon this gem; I wanted to find some more only to find it's one of the few ever made.😢 Good job, really interesting dive in the grammar ❤ Will wait for some new uploads
Your language lessons about Japanese are great! they explain like a lot of things and reveal things, which are like very hard to discover, because they either hidden in very depths of internet, or textbooks, dictionaries and other resources instead of normally explaining things give false information, like translating one kanji or particle with multiple english translations, all of them mean different things and contradict each other, and at the same time they do not even match the actual japanese meaning of kanji/particle, lol. and you telling things, which I would discover like only after years of studying japanese. I would like it if you will make more of these videos. for example i interested in how 本 end up being at the same time morpheme to indicate idea of root, something from which something grows, book and classifier for cylinder-shaped things(and not only them, but for example as i know computer softwares). These things are so unrelated, i am interested in hearing the story of how 本 end up convey all of these things. or maybe I would like to hear more about common Japanese pronouns like boku, watashi, ore and maybe others. Yes, maybe on the internet there are already many videos already about these pronouns, but I think you would just explain it better. or i would like to hear more about morphemes like san, sama and お. Or maybe about particles like で, に and を. or maybe i would like hear explanation and linguistic history of 気. This is not like very necessary for you to make all these videos about all these suggested topics, I understand that you can have like different things in life, and you maybe not always have time for videos, but I would be happy if you make a video about some of these topics or I hope at least provided good ideas for new videos. and yeah I have one question. I think 気 means something like energy, but not like in sense of physics, but more as a resource, which you spent to do things, and if you don't have energy(気), you can't do things and feel all exhausted and tired and meeeehhh. How accurate is my understanding? and can be 気 viewed as karma from Naruto? I think they are quite similar. is this would be correct to explain 気 as karma from Naruto?
@@r-duppcreatstah8815 thank you very much for your long comment, it's very appreciated. Those are some great ideas, I've written them down :) I've never watched Naruto, but to my understand 気 is just a borrowing from Chinese. 気 is read as Chi I believe in modern Mandarin, and like you say, it's about one's own person vitality, energy spirit etc. Rather than a literal resource like coal or fuel. I looked up Karma because I'm no expert on Hinduism/Buddhism/Indian theology. 'Derived from the Sanskrit word karman, meaning 'act'. If Chi means something like 'life force' and Karma means an 'act', I'd guess they're different. But again, I've not seen Naruto so I'm not sure. I wanted to do a video on Chinese language influences on Japanese, so Japan's adoption of the Chinese term 気 would be a great video to do. Thank you again for your comment.
@@tonythesopranos5310 Wait..... i'm stupid. I had no clue how chakra spelled in english, and i called chakra from Naruto karma, and i haven't noticed this until now, lol. well i often do stupid mistakes like that even in my native language lol Well in any case, thanks for your answer and you are welcome;3 wish you all best and keep up in doing great videos!!!!!!
@@r-duppcreatstah8815 thank you! That's very kind :) I don't want to hurt your feelings at all, but I would be doing you a disservice if I wasn't honest. I can understand everything that you're saying, but sometimes some of the grammar/word choices are a bit different from what I would use personally. But it's great that you're practicing. It takes a lot of courage to make mistakes and learn by using a different language. Keep up the studying and I'm sure you'll be great.
rote memorization has never worked for me, I need to know the WHY for stuff, so I'm so glad this graced my recommended. Where can I find more Japanese linguistic history content? I want to be BUREID IN IT!!!
@@mayanightstar thank you for your comment. A History of the Japanese Language by Bjarke Frellesvig is a great book. However, it is very detailed, and without a background in linguistics, some of it just flies over my head. Honestly though, I'd just read through the Japanese language Wikipedia page. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language. Wikipedia gets a bad wrap sometimes, but honestly, for some topics it's great. I think it does a great job of explaining the development in terms that non-linguists such as myself can understand. Unfortunately though, a lot of this stuff just hasn't been translated, or isn't codified in one place for an English reading audience. I only know about these little language tidbits from just studying the language over the years and finding the information here and there. I hope that helps! And I totally agree, if you can't explain how something works to someone else, you don't really understand it in my opinion. Without conceptual knowledge you're just a very humanoid parrot repeating information 🦜
@@soleursuelos3616 Hi, sorry I am not sure that I fully understand the question. You take する, put it into its 連用形 (renyoukei) form which is し and put ます at the end. So you're just sticking ます onto the 連用形 form. する is one of the very few verbs in Japanese where the sound change is 'inconsistent'. If する followed the Ichidan verb rules exactly it should be すます. If it followed the Godan verb rules exactly it would be しります. However, there's an exceedingly small amount of verbs in Japanese that are a bit 'inconsistent' like するand くる. So to clarify, する turning into します is consistent with ます being added to the 連用形 form, but, for whatever reason, する turns into a し sound in its 連用形 form. There could be a linguistic reason for this that I don't know about, or it could just have been a random historical development.
I noticed how you didn't quite understand the use of the small tsu (っ) so I wanted to clarify if you didn't already know. You need to know that when this small tsu comes before an S or Sh sound, it lengthens the sound. Like in ma_suru (まっする) because an s sound comes after the small tsu, unlike all other stop consonants which pause, sounds like s and sh after it lengthen instead. So instead of ma_suru it's more like massuru. I'm not sure if the same thing happens to other fricatives like H/F but I'll find out soon or later.
I am not sure that I agree sorry. This is one of the sources I used, see how it is written as : まっする (www.nihongo-books.com/desu-masu/masu/), and that is how I have written it at 9:18 in the video. I am not quite sure what you are trying to tell me? (That isn't meant to sound passive-aggressive). I have studied Japanese for a few years now, I very much understand how っ works. Again, I don't want to sound defensive. I just don't really understand what you are trying to teach me.
Hi, I hope that this video helps to clarify what 'masu' is and what it does. I don't have access to my actual microphone at the moment, hence the worse voice quality, so I apologise for that. To clarify, there are definite differences between Japanese spoken in formal settings, and normal everyday language. However, what I wanted to achieve with this video, is to explain how the conjugation differences between 'masu' and 'plain form' Japanese really doesn't make up two separate systems of conjugation. Masu is just an auxiliary verb that makes a Japanese verb more formal/polite. I.e., 食べます (tabemasu) is the more formal/polite version of 食べる (taberu).
Love this video! I found the background images and edits to be pretty engaging (and funny). Looking forward to more!
@@railvolt thank you :) it's only 13 minutes long, but you'd be amazed at how even simple editing like this takes, probably took a good few hours to make. I'm looking forward to making more though!
Thank you so much for this video! I love the fact that more people are understanding ます forms not as conjugations, but as auxiliary verbs added onto verb stems. It helps making Japanese grammar much more understandable and regular
@@gustavovillegas5909 thank you for the kind comment! I really struggled with Japanese, until I began to try and find out the Japanese logic behind their own language and it all suddenly began to click more easily :)
this video is amazing. when explain like this it becomes so simple to understand how we got to masu from its former use. thank you.
@@trontrontrontron4 that's very kind, thank you!
Holy sht the quality is insane ❤. Textbook underated channel.
@@sherlockholmes6332 thank you detective sherlock 🙏
What the hell!? 😂 I accidentally stumbled upon this gem; I wanted to find some more only to find it's one of the few ever made.😢 Good job, really interesting dive in the grammar ❤ Will wait for some new uploads
@@marcipanovics that's very kind of you to say, thank you!
underrated
@@DanielMemeSmith thank you 🙏
Your language lessons about Japanese are great! they explain like a lot of things and reveal things, which are like very hard to discover, because they either hidden in very depths of internet, or textbooks, dictionaries and other resources instead of normally explaining things give false information, like translating one kanji or particle with multiple english translations, all of them mean different things and contradict each other, and at the same time they do not even match the actual japanese meaning of kanji/particle, lol. and you telling things, which I would discover like only after years of studying japanese. I would like it if you will make more of these videos. for example i interested in how 本 end up being at the same time morpheme to indicate idea of root, something from which something grows, book and classifier for cylinder-shaped things(and not only them, but for example as i know computer softwares). These things are so unrelated, i am interested in hearing the story of how 本 end up convey all of these things. or maybe I would like to hear more about common Japanese pronouns like boku, watashi, ore and maybe others. Yes, maybe on the internet there are already many videos already about these pronouns, but I think you would just explain it better. or i would like to hear more about morphemes like san, sama and お. Or maybe about particles like で, に and を. or maybe i would like hear explanation and linguistic history of 気. This is not like very necessary for you to make all these videos about all these suggested topics, I understand that you can have like different things in life, and you maybe not always have time for videos, but I would be happy if you make a video about some of these topics or I hope at least provided good ideas for new videos.
and yeah I have one question. I think 気 means something like energy, but not like in sense of physics, but more as a resource, which you spent to do things, and if you don't have energy(気), you can't do things and feel all exhausted and tired and meeeehhh. How accurate is my understanding? and can be 気 viewed as karma from Naruto? I think they are quite similar. is this would be correct to explain 気 as karma from Naruto?
@@r-duppcreatstah8815 thank you very much for your long comment, it's very appreciated. Those are some great ideas, I've written them down :)
I've never watched Naruto, but to my understand 気 is just a borrowing from Chinese. 気 is read as Chi I believe in modern Mandarin, and like you say, it's about one's own person vitality, energy spirit etc. Rather than a literal resource like coal or fuel. I looked up Karma because I'm no expert on Hinduism/Buddhism/Indian theology. 'Derived from the Sanskrit word karman, meaning 'act'. If Chi means something like 'life force' and Karma means an 'act', I'd guess they're different. But again, I've not seen Naruto so I'm not sure. I wanted to do a video on Chinese language influences on Japanese, so Japan's adoption of the Chinese term 気 would be a great video to do.
Thank you again for your comment.
@@tonythesopranos5310 Wait..... i'm stupid. I had no clue how chakra spelled in english, and i called chakra from Naruto karma, and i haven't noticed this until now, lol. well i often do stupid mistakes like that even in my native language lol
Well in any case, thanks for your answer and you are welcome;3 wish you all best and keep up in doing great videos!!!!!!
@@r-duppcreatstah8815 thank you! That's very kind :)
I don't want to hurt your feelings at all, but I would be doing you a disservice if I wasn't honest. I can understand everything that you're saying, but sometimes some of the grammar/word choices are a bit different from what I would use personally.
But it's great that you're practicing. It takes a lot of courage to make mistakes and learn by using a different language. Keep up the studying and I'm sure you'll be great.
rote memorization has never worked for me, I need to know the WHY for stuff, so I'm so glad this graced my recommended. Where can I find more Japanese linguistic history content? I want to be BUREID IN IT!!!
@@mayanightstar thank you for your comment. A History of the Japanese Language by Bjarke Frellesvig is a great book. However, it is very detailed, and without a background in linguistics, some of it just flies over my head. Honestly though, I'd just read through the Japanese language Wikipedia page. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language. Wikipedia gets a bad wrap sometimes, but honestly, for some topics it's great. I think it does a great job of explaining the development in terms that non-linguists such as myself can understand. Unfortunately though, a lot of this stuff just hasn't been translated, or isn't codified in one place for an English reading audience. I only know about these little language tidbits from just studying the language over the years and finding the information here and there. I hope that helps! And I totally agree, if you can't explain how something works to someone else, you don't really understand it in my opinion. Without conceptual knowledge you're just a very humanoid parrot repeating information 🦜
The Total war profiles are giving me flashbacks xD
Doesnt suru turn into shimasu? Wouldn't that count as a conjugation
You drop the ru like ichidan, but change su to shi jak godan, it's bona fide exception
@@soleursuelos3616 Hi, sorry I am not sure that I fully understand the question.
You take する, put it into its 連用形 (renyoukei) form which is し and put ます at the end. So you're just sticking ます onto the 連用形 form.
する is one of the very few verbs in Japanese where the sound change is 'inconsistent'. If する followed the Ichidan verb rules exactly it should be すます. If it followed the Godan verb rules exactly it would be しります. However, there's an exceedingly small amount of verbs in Japanese that are a bit 'inconsistent' like するand くる.
So to clarify, する turning into します is consistent with ます being added to the 連用形 form, but, for whatever reason, する turns into a し sound in its 連用形 form. There could be a linguistic reason for this that I don't know about, or it could just have been a random historical development.
I noticed how you didn't quite understand the use of the small tsu (っ) so I wanted to clarify if you didn't already know.
You need to know that when this small tsu comes before an S or Sh sound, it lengthens the sound. Like in ma_suru (まっする) because an s sound comes after the small tsu, unlike all other stop consonants which pause, sounds like s and sh after it lengthen instead. So instead of ma_suru it's more like massuru.
I'm not sure if the same thing happens to other fricatives like H/F but I'll find out soon or later.
I am not sure that I agree sorry. This is one of the sources I used, see how it is written as : まっする (www.nihongo-books.com/desu-masu/masu/), and that is how I have written it at 9:18 in the video. I am not quite sure what you are trying to tell me? (That isn't meant to sound passive-aggressive). I have studied Japanese for a few years now, I very much understand how っ works. Again, I don't want to sound defensive. I just don't really understand what you are trying to teach me.
じゃ、日本語出来る？
@@apt1313 努力すれば、何でもできると思います！
@@tonythesopranos5310まあ、質問に答えたね。『君は日本語が話せる』と聞きたかったんだ。僕は今日本語勉強している、もしこの文が変、教えてください。
@@apt1313 [君は日本語が話せる]私にとって風通の日本語の文法だと思います。