Uki Uki Japanese Lesson 24 - Usagi Holmes 1: Verb Groups

Uki Uki Japanese Lesson 24 Usagi Holmes 1: A Study in Verbs

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Today, we are focusing on verb groups in Japanese.

Japanese present-tense affirmative, present negative, past affirmative, and past negative conjugate like this.
Polite Japanese: verb endings (ますmasu, ません masen, ました mashita, ませんでした masendeshita).
Casual Japanese: verb endings (Dictionary form, ない, た, なかった)

In this video, we’ll focus on the dictionary form of verbs because it’s the easiest to identify.

All Japanese verbs are categorized into three verb groups: Irregular verbs, るverbs, and うverbs.

1. Irregular verbs: There are only 2 irregular verbs in Japanese.
する: to do (very versatile when combined with an action noun)
くる: to come (a few variations)

2. るverbs can only have 2 patterns:
eる ending (e.g. たべる taberu、ねる neru、かける kakeru)
iる ending (e.g. みる miru、できる dekiru, おちる ochiru)

3. うverbs are the biggest verb group. This includes:
All non る-ending verbs (e.g. のむ nomu, かく kaku)
aる, uる, and oる ending verbs (e.g. ある aru, おくる okuru, つもる tsumoru)
*Some exceptions

*Those exceptions are tricky うverbs that “sound like” a るverb because of eる or iる endings.
Luckily, there aren’t too many of those exceptions, so just memorize them and remember that they are うverbs.
e.g. はしる hashiru, しる shiru, かえる kaeru, しゃべる shaberu, etc.

Knowing how to identify verb groups correctly will come in handy when you use any verb expressions.

Hope you enjoyed this video. :)
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[tonyanubis]

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[deapersefone]

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[kazuekurahara]

Let Usagi Holmes solve mysteries! This time, he's tackling Japanese verb groups.

[EmeraldZoneNetGMG]

What an incredible video. I've just started learning verbs and this has helped so much. Thank you!

[mztik]

Nicely done and very informative as always. Thanks Japan Society and Uki Uki Team.

[SonnyDarvishzadeh]

I'm rewatching this video, and thank you once again. I couldn't learn this in the Japanese class, but only 9 minutes video taught me perfectly.

[गौतमगुळदे]

Simply awesome! This video will encourage me to learn Japanese language.Thank you.

[drivethrutvphilippines]

hi sensei, when we can use particles?Like ga, ha, wo, de, he, ni etc...i do appreciate your reply.., i love this channel so much....

[BlackWidow]

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[ancaiimura]

My teacher could never explain this to me so easily, thanks

[yobrojoost]

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[senaryflash]

Thanks! It's so helpful. Can't wait for another episode, maybe something with adjectives?

[snackdragonn]

Usagi Holmes is a fantastic detective! I've been following this case for a long time, but I could never figure out the mystery! Thanks again, Mr. Usagi and Kura Watson!

[ramirosotto]

I finally understand this! Thank you so much!

[planiflia]

very well-made and helpful! and beautiful to boot <3

[bude]

Ah, elementary, my dear Kura-Watson.  Sorry, I could not resist.  :-)

[Ancipital_]

こんにちわ　くらはらせんせい、

My question is, in Japanese, can you have multiple verbs? For example, "I will come to watch the show", or the past tense, "I came to watch the show." You probably can, right? So how does this work?

I hope you can help me understand. Or, maybe it is in a future video I have not seen yet?

よろしくお願いします！
ーバンヂコ　マウコ。

[davidbagley]

Thank you..but on my cell phone the print is very small...

[TheWipal]

these videos have so mich effort put into it beautiful

[wilmadejose]

Big help. Thank you for uploading. More please...