Lesson 7: Secrets of Japanese negative verbs, and Adjective 'conjugations'

Forget the rote-learning and overcomplication of textbook-land. Here are the simple secrets of Japanese negative verbs, Japanese adjective "conjugations", and the amazingly logical beauty of the verb-stem system. Pick up the keys to the Japanese negative form right here!

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*IMPORTANT CORRECTION:* at 2:00 an invisible が-car and a black が-car are shown. The black car should be a black だ-engine. A sentence can never end without an engine. And the big B core element is always an engine. It has だ written right underneath, so it should be clear but I am so sorry for letting this bad mistake slip through.

There are a couple of other typos too. This video seems to be fated! At 6:20 there is あわいく where it should be かわいく and at 9:30 まさせん instead of ません. I think my proofreader was asleep this time! The lecture and subtitles are correct so it shouldn't cause confusion, but I am truly sorry and will definitely try to stop this sort of thing happening again.

PS - I said "big B" because although there aren't any small b's so far, there will b. Heehee, see what I did there?

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[aeronwolfe]

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[tjstarr]

If you know Old Japanese, it becomes even more obvious why -i changes to -ku. Those adjectives that end in -i, like takai, used to end in -ki, takaki. Takaki switched to the -u stem before -nai, so takakunai. This is the same reason why the te-form of verbs ending in -ku lose their "k", because the "k" sound was elided before "i".

[worldofconspiracy]

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[lkoll]

I have started only few months ago to learn Japanese, as a self-taught student (with books/workbooks and Internet ressources). I have recently fallen in a great confusion and demotivation: "the more I feel to study - more I feel I'm lost". I have retuned my language objectives, randomly searched and try other methods and ressources, without real progress. Then I have found this wonderful channel : just after few classes I reborn...All is so well and simply explained, so clear, so logical, that a lot of "clicks in the mind" are fixing my language bases. I'm so grateful to whom conceived and launched this channel. Thank you very much Cure Dolly, may your excellent work light more and more students. RIP.

[manab]

OMG I'M MESMERISED. TEXTBOOKS DON'T TELL YOU THAT "DE" IS THE "TE FORM" OF "DA" IN "DE HA NAI" OMGGG THANKS. I'm definitely learning so much by "re-learning" while watching your videos. Please, never stop. This is some wonderful stuff you're putting out OMG. thank you so much!!!

[saddasish]

I like the fact that you said how "kaanai" is not as easy to say as "kawanai", explaining the oddity of having the wa instead of a. The funny thing is that the oddity actually goes the other way around, historically speaking. う verbs were originally ふ verbs and the ふ was pronounced as "pu" back then (the entire modern h-column of kana were pronounced using "p" during that time). A sound shift came along for that verb ending, changing "pu" to "fu" to "(w)u". So the modern う verbs are actually verbs in the w-column -- with "w" is only pronounced before "a". So it's not "w" added before "a"; it's actually the "w" being deleted before other vowels so that "kau" isn't pronounced as "kawu", or "kaimasen" as "kawimasen", etc. (Yes, even before "o", as "wo" is only used as a particle and often pronounced as "o" anyway as many have learned). But of course knowing this isn't much useful for learners of Japanese but it's kinda cool to know the real story of how the -wa got in there. And it also kinda explains why there are no ふ verbs nowadays haha

[amadhia]

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[Nerukenshi]

I am very grateful for this material. I hope that you may rest in peace, 先生.

[nscypvt]

Lesson 7- NEGATIVE VERBS || い ADJECTIVE CONJUGATIONS
00:01- 00:22- Introduction


☆It exists • it doesn't exist
00:23- adjective ない= doesn't exist
|| verb ある= exist
00:55- why do we use a verb for being and an adjective for non-being?

☆(It) is not (adjective)
01:38- (B) が (A) ではない

☆Verb steams & (あ steam to the negative)
02:30- verbs in the negative
02:46- verb-stem system || explanatiom
03:49- verb-stem system:
|| (う- steam) and the
04:28- ☆あ- STEAM☆ to conjugate to the negative

☆Adjective conjugations☆
06:03- い adjectives to the negative tense
06:55- い adjectives to the past tense

☆Verbs☆
07:14- review of verbs- lesson 4
|| 1. verbs in non-past (positive and negative)
|| 2. verbs in the past (positive and negative)

07:49- verbs in the continuous form
|| 3. (positive and negative)
|| 4. past (positive and negative)

☆Exceptions☆
08:52- the exception of negative verbs || ます- formal verb
09:32- the exception of adjectives || いい (is good)- よい
10:10- finishing

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[mikomichael]

You made my Japanese learning journey a lot easier, Thank you!

[EzraAlistair]

For two years, I have been studying Japanese and never knew what dewa actually was. Very interesting!

[m.m.]

What I really like about your lessons is that they are really packed with useful information. They really are meant to be rewatched.

I'm at the moment following your course, because I like your perspective on things so much. I know the content basically, but I still learn new things in every video. Especially the one about the particle は and that it also can replace を was absolutely eye-opening.

[weemyyy]

while I was learning in classrooms I had made this "stem rule" in my head to make it easier to remember the conjugation, and I was still blow away when you showed it! truly it makes it so much easier, a little thinking maybe at first but I can figure it own eventually! I'm gonna need to practice this lesson plenty of time, Dolly sensei you really deciphered Japanese so intelligently !!

[cynthiathinnes]

Thank you so much for this! I knew for a long time that ない worked like an adjective, but your explanation of why was really interesting and helpful!

[rafirafchaines]

the sky, sea, universe, a grain of rice.
beautiful.

[TayaTerumi]

いる being an Ichidan verb blew my mind. Thank you, very insightful!