The ULTIMATE Japanese Verb Conjugation CHEAT SHEET
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- Japanese verb conjugations are actually very easy if you just understand the Japanese verb stem system. The Japanese verb stem conjugation system is often overlooked by conventional textbooks but is the system that native Japanese speakers use to conjugate verbs.
Instead of letting the textbooks lie to you about how there are hundreds of complex verb conjugations in Japanese, understanding the native verb stem system allows you to see how Japanese verbs only really have 5 conjugations.
This video will be a step by step breakdown of how the Japanese verb stem conjugation system works as well as a brief look at every stem and some of the helper verbs and adjectives (助動詞) that can attach to each appropriate stem.
🎬 Timestamps:
00:00 How Japanese Verbs REALLY Conjugate
01:18 い-stem (連用形)
03:48 あ-stem (未然形)
06:35 え-stem (命令形・仮定形)
08:57 お-stem (推量系)
09:28 Lego-Like Structure of Japanese Verbs
11:32 Solving a Strange Oddity
12:53 DON'T use THIS Japanese System
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I was recently able to go to Japan for the first time and challenged myself to speak Japanese only while I was there, check out how it went! ua-cam.com/video/klpva9zI72I/v-deo.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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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: ua-cam.com/video/jO-MsyOCpr0/v-deo.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.
@@Slippynutz 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. 😢
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 UA-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.
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!
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.
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.
The only thing I learned from this video us that conjugations are much kore complex than I thought
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
I know you're trying to be entertaining while you teach and while this information is insanely valuable, the meme presentation of the information makes it insanely hard to concentrate on said info.
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!
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 UA-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 UA-cam game explaining the Japanese grammar like this.
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.
underrated video, simplify the verb conjugation so well and included so many examples
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 UA-cam.
I am... confused 💀
You have a good sense of humor as well as instructive.
Thank you for this video! Very helpful. Keep it going! I’ll be following
I love the random editing with all the sounds. Keeps you on edge haha
Best explanation i have found yet!!!
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!
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
Wow, instant subscribe! I knew all these grammar patterns but seeing them all in one place makes so much more sense
I cannot thank you enough for making this video!! I really struggled with japanese verb conjugations, but you made everything so clear. Thank you!! :))
Your channel should be bigger. The quality of your editing and instruction is incredible
This is an INCREDIBLE video and extremely engaging in explaining every little nuance; Much appreciated! Thank you and please continue🙏
Aloha from Maui 🌈 I just found your channel. Thank you so much for the video and your hard work! I started learning Japanese last year at 51. I'm looking forward to watching your other videos.
This video is just awesome. I hadn't seen an explanation like this. It's very useful thx.
I could like the video 100 times and still won't show how thankful I am. Thank you, really.
Thank you very much!
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!
Great video, I probably gonna rewatch it many times.
This is exactly how I learnt the conjunction. The video is so beautiful and wonderful to share and teach.
Thanks a lot.
amazing video with great editing! im surprised you don't have more subs :)
i love your videos ty for your hardwork sensei
Super helpful guide, thanks a bunch!
This video is incredible omg thank you very much
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 UA-camrs! Hope you enjoy the video and find it useful! 😁
whyyyy i didn’t find your channel before??? it’s so easy to get!
Most helpful japanese video lesson ive seen in my life
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!
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
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!
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.
Thank you so much for this video it helps so much
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!!
Bro thanks for video this is the most helpful video ever ❤
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!
Great video, the editing was very entertaining and the lesson well explained!
Thank you very much! Glad you decided to check out my other videos too! 😁
Brilliant presentation✨
I have no idea who you are. I’ve never seen your videos or your channel. But this content is so good I subscribed instantly. Go you stranger.
Absolutely perfect lesson video and the montage is so good and smooth
ありがとうございます
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 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 just started learning Japanes and pretty much only know how to read hiragana and some very basic stuff but this was so intuitive and easy to understand and follow.
Such an useful and great video, it feels like I learnt a lot even though the content was pretty advanced for my level.
I will definitely subscribe, check more of your videos and review this one and take notes about it in some time.
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!
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!
This is perhaps the best educational video on Japanese I've ever seen 👀
three thumbs up for this one, I wish I had seen this years ago - how to explain something to the point, no frills, right on the chin!
I've started learning hiragana and katakana recently, so I'm nowhere near this level yet, but I know a great grammar video when I see one! Plus, the editing was very funny, it must have taken quite a lot of time and effort to make, ありがとう!
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.
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 recognize this very Cure Dolly esque style of video! Nice to see she lives on in your channel
Such a useful video ! Thank you !
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！
It s an incredible video very well explained u can be rly proud ;)
Cure Dolly RIP! Nice to see that little train carriage reference in there. Great video and masterful editing. Subbed!
Thank you for this video, MC Ride's gradually distorting grunt trully made it feel like a real class environment
I've been searching for this info and I finally found it when I wasn't looking for it 😂 凄いな！
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!
This video is a wonderful achievement. 素晴らしい ですね！
Thank you very much for this video. It made a lot of things click... like a good Lego. I know this is a late comment, but this is the first time the algorithm has recommended it to me.
This was simple to understand, but obviously will take time to practice. I will definitely be checking out more of your videos. And I'll probably watch this one a few more times.
My brain was just fried. Great well edited tutorial though, gonna come back to it when I get to know more of the basics.
Just happened to saw this video. I already this conjugation but why your editing is so ggooooodd!! My editing skills is not like this even though i studied 4 years in animation and editing course hahaha. Always great man!!
Glad you enjoyed the way I edit my videos! Editing is a lot like Japanese, the more practice you get in, the better you get!
Thank you for the lesson. ありがとうございます！
I love the way you teach!! わかりやすかったです。新作の元気教科書を書いたら、クッキーが一枚あげられます
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!
That Ui-mama clip caught me so off guard LOL. Really helpful video thank you!!
Cure Dolly sensei surely proud of you, and us her students feel so too! Thanks so much for make this wonderful video. I'll show this to my students!
Comments like these are very moving as I have a lot of respect for Dolly Sensei and everything she's done for me and her other students. Thank you very much, it means a lot to be recognized as someone worthy of carrying on her legacy 🙏
I've found a treasure of a channel
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! 😎
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?
great editing brother
Superbly edited, makes great points.
As someone with 200 days of DuoLingo and not much more, I'm not entirely sure how the UA-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!
this is life-changing bless
Thank you so much!! 😘😘
Your channel is a gem! 💎💎
How did you learn Japanese, may I ask? Your pedagogy is the most concise yet clearest I’ve ever encountered in my 4yrs of self-studying Nihongo. It’s tying up all the lessons I’ve so far. It’s like lighting a lightbulb in my brain 💡.
He learnt from speaking to natives and immersing
@@modupeelendu2153 😮😮 I think that’s even more amazing!
Thanks for the reply.
Wow great video! you deserve more views!
Thank you very much! Glad the video was helpful!
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!
Thanks for the video 👍👍
You're very welcome!
Very good video(s). I had been learning Japanese from Pimsleur which only really teaches polite masu form and when I saw the dictionary version of a word, I was so confused but you gave me the missing pieces to understand how it all fits together, and then some! Joizu Juls wa honto jouzo desu!
Do you have that te form video?
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!
Apart from the quality of the video I found interesting that I have grapheme-color sinestesia for vowels and it helps me a lot in Japanese learning in a way that is similar to how you used color in this video + the colors for a e u are the same that I have as connections, where as i for me is yellow and o is black. Thank’s for the video.
Soo goood! I'm living in Japan right now, trying to build my Japanese as much as possible! This is super helpful :D
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
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
Wow great video dude 😊
bro really put all of Cure Dolly's Japanese videos into one
Packaged as neatly as I could make it too 👌
Hoping to carry on Dolly Sensei's legacy with this series and eventually start covering the stuff she never covered in video format ^^
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@@JouzuJuls Godspeed in your endeavours. She's certainly smiling at you from android heaven :smiling_face_with_tear:
I will leave a sub for you in case you will continue these high quality videos on grammar.
It reminded me so much of Cure Dolly (especially the train carts :D). Ever since I saw her videos I was hoping to find a content creator that can explain japanese like she did and that is still active so that there will be new videos coming and one could also put questions in the comments if sth was unclear.
I am absolutely going to continue these videos so thank you very much for the sub! 😎
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Yes, Dolly Sen was an absolute saint and completely shifted the way I understood Japanese. Without her, I would definitely not be at the level I'm currently at.
Great, because I really need a remake of the も/でも (as in なにも/なんでも) video, maybe including other question words like いつも/いつでも. :D
In that context also で as て-form of だ was really important.
hope you get way more subscribers soon.
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@@sokka50 I'll put it down on my whiteboard but I've got a lot of stuff to work on before I can get to this!
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Do join the Discord server to ask directly to see if anybody can help! discord.gg/deg7eBq
😮 🧠 💥 thank you, stay amazing! 🙌
As a complete noob I found this video super helpful. Thank you!